[Reader-list] Invitation: Workshop on Hindustani Music and Partition

[Yousuf]

2-day Workshop on Hindustani Music and Partition
Edward Said Hall, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
22-23 August 2008

The Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, and the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, cordially invite you to participate and contribute to a 2-day convention involving dialogues and music-making with eminent musicians and researchers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, on the theme of the impact of 1947 Partition on cultural practices, especially the art music, of South Asia.
 
Some ideas for this workshop evolved out of a research carried out by the Delhi-based filmmaker and writer, Yousuf Saeed, who spent a few months in Pakistan in 2005 for a fellowship on the music of South Asia. His work culminated in a report as well as a feature-length documentary film, Khayal Darpan that has been widely screened, initiating a dialogue about concerns such as the survival of art music and national identity in South Asia. The present workshop is part of a series of such dialogues to be carried out in different parts of South Asia. We hope to bring together scholars, musicians, historians, and students of music and cultural studies in an informal setting to reflect upon various issues in the study of music emerging in the context of modernity.

More information and theoretical background about the workshop and the theme of its different panels can be seen at the website: http://www.ektara.org

Programme
Venue: Edward Said Hall, Administrative Block, Jamia Millia Islamia,
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110025

The following list outlines the schedule of the two days that are divided into morning sessions of paper reading and discussions, afternoon’s more informal sessions with talks that may have demos of music making, and finally the evening sessions with more music making by practitioners from South Asia.
 
Day 1:  22 August, 2008, Friday
9:30 am: Welcome/Introduction by Yousuf Saeed

9:45 am: Opening comments by Prof. Mushirul Hasan, Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia

10:00 am: Session 1: "Cultural Identity and the Making of Nations"

• Lakshmi Subramaniam (JMI, New Delhi)
Identity, Nationalism and the Making of classical traditions

• Gregory Booth (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand)
"Is classical music dead?" – Musical and Cultural Change in South Asia

• Vibodh Parthasarthi (CCMG, JMI, New Delhi)
The marking of identity in the business of recorded music: Observations from the early 20th century

12:00 pm: discussion of panel 1
Discussant: Partha Dutta (Z.H.College, Delhi)

1:00 pm: lunch

2:00 pm: Session 2: "Partition and Gharana Narratives" (with music demos)

• Naseeruddin Saami (Vocalist, Karachi, Pakistan)
• Vidya Rao (Vocalist, Delhi)
• Asit Kumar Dey (Vocalist, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

4:00pm: Discussion of panel 2
Discussant: Saleem Kidwai (Researcher, Lucknow)

5:00 pm: Screening of archival recordings/videos of past maestros 
by Yousuf Saeed

6:00 pm: Music-making session (same location):

• Nafees Ahmed (Sitar, Karachi, Pakistan)
• Aslam Khan (Classical Vocal, Mumbai)

Day 2:  23 August, 2008, Saturday

10 am: Session 3: "Knowledge Transmission Affected by the Border"

• Yousuf Saeed (Independent filmmaker, New Delhi)
A Survey of Music Literature Produced in Pakistan

• Subhendu Ghosh (Vocalist, New Delhi)
Cultural Identity and Cross Border Musical Heritage: The Bengal Experience

• Amlan Dasgupta (Researcher, Archivist, Kolkata)
Music across Borders

12:00 pm: discussion of panel 3
Discussant: Atmaram B. (Independent researcher, Chandigarh)

1:00 pm: lunch

2:00 pm: Session 4: Between Popular and Elite: Music Adapting to the Changing Audience

• Aslam Khan (Vocalist, Mumbai)
• Jon Barlow (Musician, Instrument maker, Mumbai)
• Raza Kazim (Researcher, Archivist, Lahore, Pakistan)

4:00: Discussion of panel 4
Discussant: S. Kalidas (Researcher, Delhi)

6:00 pm Music-making session (at Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia):

• Asit Kumar Dey (Classical Vocal, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
• Noor Zehra Zakim (Sagar Veena, Lahore, Pakistan)
• Naseeruddin Saami (Classical Vocal, Karachi, Pakistan)

The workshop is free and open to all. However, the seats are limited.

To see the map and directions to Jamia Millia Islamia, kindly visit http://jmi.nic.in