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February 15, 2012
CONF Audible Intimacies: A Symposium on Song in South Indian Cinema
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From: "A. Thompson" <thompsona1@uchicago.edu>
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Audible Intimacies: A Symposium on Song in South Indian Cinema
Keynote Address by Rolf Groesbeck
University of Chicago
Classics Building Room 110,
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Song and dance scenes perform several functions in South Indian film.
They advance narratives, amplify characters and relationships, evoke
wider cultural frames of reference, and create moments and spaces of
intimacy on and beyond the screen. Despite the tremendous historical and
contemporary relevance of film music in the daily lives of listeners,
work on South Asian expressive cultures has only recently begun to
explore the public and private intimacies film songs engender. With the
intention of facilitating new research synergies in South Asian film
studies, this symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars who
share a common interest in considering the agents and affects of
intimacies in songs that span the devotional, the nostalgic, the
ordinary, the utopian, and the transgressive in South Indian cinema.
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Symposium Schedule:
9:00 a.m. Welcome address
Philip Bohlman (Music)
9:15 - 10:15 - Pallavi
Chair: Melvin Butler (Music)
"Sound Masala: Spicing up Intimate Spheres with song"
Kaley Mason (Music)
"Dam it's gonna blow: Tamil Film Music and the Origins of Tamil Hip-Hop"
Sascha Ebeling (South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
10:15 - Coffee Break
10:30 - A Conversation with Jassie Gift (music director) and Vijay Jacob
(arranger)
Moderated by Travis Jackson (Music) and Nisha Kommattam (South Asian
Languages and civilizations)
11:30 - 12:30 - anupallavi
Chair: Nisha Kommattam
"Item Numbers, Performativity, and the ontology of the image in South
Indian film"
Constantine Nakassis (Anthropology)
"Mythical Courtesans, Modern Wives: Dance and womanhood in South Indian
Film"
Rumya Putcha (Music)
12:30 - 1:30 -- Lunch
1:30 - Keynote address
Introduction by Robert Kendrick (music)
"Issues in Kerala Drumming, Film, Popular Music and Intimacy"
Rolf Groesbeck (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
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Arjumand Thompson
South Asia Language and Area Center & The Committee on Southern Asian
Studies
University of Chicago
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