Music and the Public Sphere
April 24–25, 2014
The workshop is premised on the idea that music is a central feature of how modernity comes to be performed. Modernity rearranges the relationship between private and public realms, and in some instances even constitutes the distinction between such realms. New social arrangements gave rise to new forms of experience, whether collective or individualised. Experiencing music became an important part of what it meant to be a modern person. The increased availability of and access to music transformed the nature of public participation in culture-making, and indeed – one might argue – transformed people’s ‘taste’, whether for politics or culture, trade or pleasure. It could be a newly-classicized indigenous music, as in India, or Western genres like jazz in a number of Asian and African locations. It could be Italian music in England or the opera in Germany or France. The growth of urban centres in the metropolis as well as the colonies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, across a number of continents, ensured the formation of new markets and new structures of patronage, leading to the coming together of musicians and performers of various kinds.
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Participants
Kelly M.
Askew
Fellow
2012/2013
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thomas
Christensen
Fellow
2011/2012
Universität Chicago
Jocelyn Yiwei Chu
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Amlan Das Gupta
Das Gupta
Das Gupta
Eric
Drott
Butler School of Music, Austin
Ziad
Fahmy
Cornell University
Annegret
Fauser
Fellow
2009/2010
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Julian
Henriques
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Kaiwan
Mehta
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Jonathan
Neufeld
College of Charleston
Jann
Pasler
University of San Diego
Surabhi
Sharma
Independent Filmmaker, Mumbai