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H-ASIA February 15, 2012 CONF Audible Intimacies: A Symposium on Song in South Indian Cinema ************************************************************************ 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. ------------------------------ 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) ----- Arjumand Thompson South Asia Language and Area Center & The Committee on Southern Asian Studies University of Chicago ****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL:http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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