Women Performers as Agents of Change: Perspectives from India, March 15-16 2010

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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.

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Selected participants have been invited to submit relevant writings (published or unpublished) from their research for all participants to read ahead of time in order to facilitate discussion.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
title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Regula Qureshi

Charn Jagpal

  • English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
    • title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Stephen Slemon

  • English and Film Studies, Postcolonial theory
    • title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Jo-Ann Wallace

  • Director, Women’s Studies
    • title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Canada

Beverly Diamond

  • CRC Ethnomusicology, Memorial University (Video Link)
    • title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Davesh Soneji

  • South Asian Religions, McGill University
    • The Changing Sound of Femininity in Tamil Cinema
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(excerpt from an unpublished book manuscript entitled Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory and Modernity in South India)

Margaret Walker

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.

Amelia Maciszewski

  • Ethnomusicology/ South Asian Studies, Austin
    • title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Kaley Mason

  • Music/South Asian Studies, University of Chicago
    • Women Performing Social Change in Kerala's Cultural Public Sphere
title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Carol Babiracki

  • Music/ South Asian Studies, Syracuse University
    • title of selection & link to page, uploaded document, etc.

Matthew Allen

India

Shabi Ahmad

  • Indian Council of Historical Research
    • 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,
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