Punjab Sounds

Workshop on Punjab's sonic histories, exploring affect, identity and technology, across region & trans/nation @SheffieldUni from August 16-18, 2021.

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Omar Kasmani @FU_Berlin urges Panel 7's attention to modalities of #affect - nudging Radhika Kumar to look into the distinction of sonic & lyrical affect, Taimoor Shahid into the space of affective surplus & @ThomasGraves5 on commenting as a performance.
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@TomEHodgson @OxMusicFaculty urges Panel 7 Taimoor Shahid to think about the reception history of poetry, & Radhika Kumar about music & memory in terms of collective community. To @ThomasGraves5, he suggests thinking about history & memory of people commenting on the videos.

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@ThomasGraves5 @durham_uni asserts how #YouTube comments on #qawwali videos facilitate increased interaction between Indian and Pakistani music fans & reflect the cultural closeness or distance of the two countries & the two #Punjabs.
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Radhika Kumar @UnivofDelhi illustrates how #Dalit music in #Punjab is a part of the repertoire of resistance. She’s analyzing how the aspect of #technology, which creates the affective, helps increase the popularity of the music.
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While reflecting on samā, Taimoor Shahid @UChicago studies Mian Muhammad Bakhsh’s #Sufi epic romance tale Saif al-Mulūk and delves into the phenomenological framework in which its musical renditions are performed & auditioned.
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Aditi Deo nudges Panel 6 @KiritJS to think about sabad kirtan's relationship to non-Sikh listeners & @SakoonSingh to consider #gender implications of the songs in question. To Ronit Ghosh, she asks how pedagogic practice ties into technological locations of the #Punjab Gharana.

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@Shesmercury @HumboldtUni gives feedback to Panel 6 urging them to think what #Punjab means for technology, suggesting @KiritJS to consider what happens when the medium of the community is lost & @SakoonSingh to consider where the songs are encountered today.

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Ronit Ghosh @UChicago zooms in on the evolution of the #Punjab gharānā of tabla-playing during the 20th century. Focusing on ‘technologized tradition’, he argues for a revisionist understanding of the sounds associated with the gharānā.
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Dwelling on 2 popular #Punjabi songs, @SakoonSingh locates how the metaphors of #agriculture and #pottery are integrated into the fabric of the songs to understand the struggle of lovers’ separation (birha), an often repeated theme in #Sufi music.
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@KiritJS @SOAS explores how technological mediation has impacted the śabad kīrtan tradition of Sikhs. Tracing the impact on performance and listening practices of śabad kīrtan, he examines how new modalities have altered the meaning & significance of the tradition.
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@katherineschof8 @KingsCollegeLon responds to Panel 5 noting how Sthania'n, #bolian & drumming by #women provide a script for women's #resistance that could be taken out of the space of women's rituals & into other collectives.
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Anshu Malhotra gives feedback to Panel 5, reflecting on the idea of #Punjab & urging them to think about what happens to the nature of cultural practices when artificial boundaries are created & people are separated by #geography.
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@rjohalPhD and Kiran Sunar have pushed #giddha out of the private domain of #women & looking at #bolian, reflect on performance and gestural culture in giddha as sites of women’s political and embodied #soundscapes of complaint and desire.
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@RadhaKapuria @unishefhistory through visual evidence, foregrounds #women, especially from #Punjab, as percussionists and attempts to answer how the percussive sounds of Punjab become so distinctly gendered.
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Sumera Saleem @UOS_edu argues how the folkloric poetic tradition of Sithnia’n give way to a celebratory form of resistance to women. They serve as a shift of power in #gender relations, & function to (re)frame the role of the gender especially in the context of #Punjab.
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Kavita Bhanot @LitMustFall also nudged the speakers to think about the located-ness of identity like caste, nation, region in terms of music and think through layers of power structures & dynamics within it.
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Kavita Bhanot @LitMustFall, discussing with speakers how #nostalgia as a term, even in #music, is misunderstood & largely associated with the past & not the present, which needs to be unpacked.
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Virinder Kalra @warwickuni offers feedback to Panel 4 speakers, challenging the notion of nostalgia & discussing the infrastructures of music production in terms of social production.
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Looking at 1st & 2nd generation #BritishAsian artistes like #MalkitSingh & @thenitinsawhney, Laura Leante @durham_uni focuses on #nostalgia as key to understanding the strategies employed by different musicians to address the experience of #diaspora.
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@JSzivak draws on diasporic Punjabi remix culture to evoke notions of nostalgia and transnational capital. Analysing artistes like @ballysagoomusic & #DJFrenzy, she is demonstrating how nostalgia flows in #Punjabi popular music between the homeland and the #diaspora.
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