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A workshop to explore the work of scholars and activists who have a common interest in women performers and their unique place in Indian Society in order to create a conversation concerned with exploring, problematizing and strengthening female agency through performance.
Contents
Written Contributions
Selected participants have been invited to submit relevant writings (published or unpublished) from their research for all participants to read ahead of time in order to facilitate discussion.
University of Alberta
Christina Gier
- Music, Music and Gender, feminist theory
- Elsie Janis and Performance
- "Lived Body vs Gender" and "Throwing Like a Girl" from Iris Marion Young's On Female Bodily Experience (2005).
Regula Qureshi
- Director Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology
Charn Jagpal
- English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
- “I Mean to Win”: The Rebellious Nautch Girl as Agent of Change in Flora Annie Steel’s The Potter’s Thumb (1894)
Canada
Beverly Diamond
- CRC Ethnomusicology, Memorial University (Video Link)
- Gender Dynamism and Displacement
Davesh Soneji
- South Asian Religions, McGill University
- Performing Untenable Pasts: Aesthetics and Selfhood in Kalavantula Communities of Coastal Andhra
- Background readings:
- "Whatever Happened to the South Indian Nautch?: Toward a Cultural History of Salon Dance in Madras"
- (excerpt from an unpublished book manuscript entitled Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory and Modernity in South India)
- "Whatever Happened to the South Indian Nautch?: Toward a Cultural History of Salon Dance in Madras"
- Background readings:
Margaret Walker
- Music, Queens University
- First Ladies’ of Kathak: Choreography and Classicization
United States
Amanda Weidman
- Anthropology, Brynmore College
- The Changing Sound of Femininity in Tamil Cinema
- Background readings:
- "Behind the Scenes: Playback Singing and Ideologies of Voice in South India" (paper in progress which covers an earlier period)
- See also: Weidman, Amanda. 2006. Singing the classical, voicing the modern: The postcolonial politics of music in South India. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Background readings:
Amelia Maciszewski
- Ethnomusicology/ South Asian Studies, Austin
- Background readings:
- Background readings:
Kaley Mason
- Music/South Asian Studies, University of Chicago
- Women Performing Social Change in Kerala's Cultural Public Sphere
Carol Babiracki
- Music/ South Asian Studies, Syracuse University
- Fading Subjectivities: Jharkhand’s New Generation of Female Dancers
Matthew Allen
- Music, Wheaton College Boston
India
Shabi Ahmad
- Indian Council of Historical Research
- Changing Contours of Courtesans in 20th Century: A Historical Analysis
- title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.
Details
- Date: Monday March 15 and Tuesday March 16, 2009
- Location: Arts Lounge, Arts Bldg, University of Alberta
- Monday 9 am - 5pm: Individual Presentations / Discussion
- 8 pm: Vocal Recital, Kiran Ahluwalia, with Rez Abbasi
- Tuesday 9 am - 1pm: Musical and Round Table Discussion,