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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. | 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. | ||
− | = Written Contributions = | + | == 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Selected participants have been invited to submit relevant writings (published or unpublished) from their research for all participants to read ahead of time in order to facilitate discussion. | Selected participants have been invited to submit relevant writings (published or unpublished) from their research for all participants to read ahead of time in order to facilitate discussion. | ||
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'''Regula Qureshi''' | '''Regula Qureshi''' | ||
*Director Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology | *Director Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology | ||
− | **[[Media:Regula2.pdf|"Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints"]]<br/> | + | **To Sing or not to Sing: Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints |
− | + | ::[[Media:Regula2.pdf|"Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints"]]<br/> | |
+ | ::[http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca/misc/article.pdf "In Search of Begum Akhtar: Patriarchy, Poetry, and Twentieth-Century Indian Music"] | ||
'''Charn Jagpal''' | '''Charn Jagpal''' | ||
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'''Amanda Weidman''' | '''Amanda Weidman''' | ||
*Anthropology, Brynmore College | *Anthropology, Brynmore College | ||
− | **The Changing Sound of | + | **[[Media:Edmonton_presentation(2).pdf|"Female Voices in the Public Sphere: The Changing Sound and Image of Playback Singers in Kollywood"]] |
+ | ::Video links from YouTube: <br/> | ||
+ | :::[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKf_HS9Puc "Konjam Nilavu"] play 0:40-1:50 | ||
+ | :::[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1a5mB-Mq8 "AR Rahman Concert live"] play 0:30-1:09 (not as significant, can skip if nescessary) | ||
+ | :::[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2luEGZapiI "En Peru Meenakumari"] play 0:00-1:15 | ||
::Background readings: <br/> | ::Background readings: <br/> | ||
:::[[Media:Weidman_SAR_paper.doc|"Behind the Scenes: Playback Singing and Ideologies of Voice in South India"]] (paper in progress which covers an earlier period) | :::[[Media:Weidman_SAR_paper.doc|"Behind the Scenes: Playback Singing and Ideologies of Voice in South India"]] (paper in progress which covers an earlier period) | ||
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**[[Media:Disrupted_Divas_story_line_3rd_draft_030310.doc|Disrupted Divas: North Indian Courtesans and Conflicting Pathways in the 21st Century]] <br/> | **[[Media:Disrupted_Divas_story_line_3rd_draft_030310.doc|Disrupted Divas: North Indian Courtesans and Conflicting Pathways in the 21st Century]] <br/> | ||
::Background readings: <br/> | ::Background readings: <br/> | ||
− | :::[[Media:Bombay_dancing_girls_article.doc|"'This is the only way we have to survive': | + | :::[[Media:FINAL_MACISZEWSKI_16-1-.10.06_.doc|"Texts, Tunes and Talking Heads: Discourses Surrounding Socially Marginal North Indian Musicians"]] |
− | Unraveling the Easy Metaphor of Sex Work at a Bombay Dancing Girls’ Bar"]] by Susan Dewey <br/> | + | :::[[Media:Bombay_dancing_girls_article.doc|"'This is the only way we have to survive': Unraveling the Easy Metaphor of Sex Work at a Bombay Dancing Girls’ Bar"]] by Susan Dewey <br/> |
:::[[Media:WarnerPublics&Counterpublics.pdf|"Publics and Counterpublics"]] by Michael Warner | :::[[Media:WarnerPublics&Counterpublics.pdf|"Publics and Counterpublics"]] by Michael Warner | ||
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'''Shabi Ahmad''' | '''Shabi Ahmad''' | ||
*Indian Council of Historical Research | *Indian Council of Historical Research | ||
− | **Changing Contours of Courtesans in 20th Century: A Historical Analysis | + | **[[Media:Revised_paper_final.doc|Changing Contours of Courtesans in 20th Century: A Historical Analysis]] |
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= Details = | = Details = |
Latest revision as of 08:07, 24 March 2010
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.
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
- To Sing or not to Sing: Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints
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
- Video links from YouTube:
- "Konjam Nilavu" play 0:40-1:50
- "AR Rahman Concert live" play 0:30-1:09 (not as significant, can skip if nescessary)
- "En Peru Meenakumari" play 0:00-1:15
- 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.
- Video links from YouTube:
Amelia Maciszewski
- Ethnomusicology/ South Asian Studies, Austin
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
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,