IFA@Bangalore | Madly in Love with Music: Hindustani Sangeet in 20th Century Mumbai - A talk by Tejaswini Niranjana | December 26, 2019
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
presents
Madly in Love with Music: Hindustani Sangeet in 20th Century Mumbai
A talk by Tejaswini Niranjana
Discussant, Pallavi MD
Thursday, December 26, 2019 | 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM | Bangalore International Centre
7, 4th Main Road, Domlur II Stage, Bengaluru - 560 071
Join us for a talk titled Madly in Love with Music: Hindustani Sangeet in 20th Century Mumbai by Tejaswini Niranajana. She will be in conversation with Pallavi MD.
Tejaswini Niranjana received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under the Arts Practice programme.
The project explored Hindustani classical music as part of the intangible urban history of the metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai and examined the different cultural narratives that fed into classical music as it gained new life in late 19th century Bombay.
An offshoot of the grant made to Tejaswini, this talk focuses on the manifestations of musicophilia in Mumbai from the late 19th century to the present. This phenomenon of music-loving and the concept of a lingua musica, helps us grasp the workings of the metropolitan unconscious of a large colonial port-city like Mumbai, throwing new light on issues of the subjective and the social.
About the Speakers:
Tejaswini Niranjana is currently Professor and Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is also Visiting Professor with the School of Arts and Science at Ahmedabad University, India. She is co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, which offered an innovative inter-disciplinary PhD programme from 2000-2012. During 2012-16, she headed the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and was Indian-language advisor to Wikipedia. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context (University of California Press, 1992), Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad (Duke University Press, 2006), and Musicophilia in Mumbai (Duke University Press and Tulika Books, 2020). Among her edited volumes is Genealogies of the Asian Present: Situating Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Delhi, 2015), with Wang Xiaoming.
Pallavi MD is a singer, actor and filmmaker based out of Bangalore. She has a degree in Hindustani classical music from the Benares University. She won the State award for her song in the film Duniya, and the State Kempegowda Award for her contribution in the field of music. She has acted in Girish Kasaravalli’s Gulabi Talkies and Prakash Belawadi’s Stumble - both National award-winning films. She won the META Best Actress Award for her solo theatrical piece, C Sharp C Blunt. She is keen on collaborations with multi-disciplinary artists and her collaborations have resulted in several successful projects.