Course 1004: De-disciplining Music
Tejaswini Niranjana
This course aims to examine the way music features in different disciplines, and to trace some of the central preoccupations of the study and practice of music in different contexts. We will also explore how older discourses of culture located music, and ask how cultural studies today might investigate those locations. While we will read texts from diverse sources and traditions, the key questions we ask will be anchored by the attempt to fashion a new vocabulary in which to discuss music in India in particular and the contemporary non-west in general.
Students are encouraged to participate in the assembling and curating of the musical material for the course, which will be hosted on a web platform.
Session 1: Disciplines
Introduction: Music in Cultural Studies
Gary Tomlinson,
“Musicology, Anthropology, History” (View link here)
Antoine Hennion,
“Music and Mediation: Towards a New Sociology of Music” (View link here)
Sanjay
Srivastava, “Voice, Gender and Space in Time of Five-Year Plans: The Idea of
Lata Mangeshkar”(View link here)
Ashwini
Deshpande, “Lata Mangeshkar: The Singer and the Voice” (View link here)
Session 2: Language
Downing
A.Thomas, “Music and Language”; “Origins” (View link here) http://www.cscsarchive.org/dataarchive/textfiles/textfile.2010-08-13.4949606940/file
Lakshmi Subramaniam,
“The Tamil Isai Iyakkam and the Contest for Custodianship” (View link here)
Session 3: Voice
Tejaswini
Niranjana, “Take a little Chutney…: The Body in the Voice” (View link here)
Vidya Rao,
“Thumri as Feminine Voice” (Link found here).
Amanda Weidman, “Gender
and the Politics of Voice” (Link found here)
Marcia J Citron,
“Feminist Approaches to Musicology” )(Link found here)
Session 4: Technology
Gerry Farrell, “The
Gramophone comes to India” (View link here)
Adrian McNeil,
“Making Modernity Audible: Sarodiyas and the Early Recording Industry” (View link here)
John Mowitt,
“The Sound of Music in the Era of its Electronic Reproducibility” (View link here)
Session 5: Codification and Notation
Interview with
Gangubai Hangal (audio recording)
Ernest Clements,
from Introduction to the Study of Indian
Music (View link here)
S.M.Tagore, from
Hindu Music Link found here
V.N.Bhatkhande, A Short Historical Survey of the Music of Upper India (View link here)
Session 6: Patronage and Consumption
Jacques Attali, “Representing”
(from Noise) Link found here
East
Asia – the
music effect: Japanese fan clubs; K-pop phenomenon
Hayami, Yoko; Tanabe, Akio; Tokita-Tanabe, Yumiko, "Gender and modernity : perspectives from Asia and the Pacific" (189-217p. 292-296p.) Link found here
Session 7: Towards a new cultural study of music
Janaki Bakhle,
“The Contradictions of Music’s Modernity” Link found here
Amanda Weidman,
“A Writing Lesson: Musicology and the Birth of the Composer” Link found here
Tejaswini
Niranjana, “Transported by Song: Music and Cultural Labour in Dharwad” Link Found here
Films: Umrao Jaan, Documentary on Gangubai Hangal, Buena Vista Social Club, Jahaji Music – screenings to be scheduled.
Workshop: A two-day workshop on Hindustani music will be conducted by Prof. Amlan Dasgupta, Jadavpur University, alongside the course. Tentative dates: Nov.11-13, 2010.
Readings for Workshop:
Joep Bor,Three Important Essays on Hindustani Music. (link found here)
Women and Music: The case of North India.(Link found here)
Adrian McNeil, Messing with Mirasis: Some thoughts of hereditary musicians in Hindustani music.(Link found here)
Adrian McNeil, Courtesans,Military Musicians and Shi'a Ideology in Nineteenth Century Lucknow.(link found here)
Course requirements: One interactive response to internet-based activity; one term paper; class presentations.
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