Gauhar Jaan

bishnupur gharana

aghorenath chakraborty

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Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Raga Vardhani

Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar

Gundecha Brothers

The postdoctoral project addresses a concern about an unfair social divide upheld in contemporary sound studies and media art history, as well as in the curating and showcasing of sound and media art. This divide is practiced often by a lack of critical engagement with the artists from South Asia, Middle-East, and Africa – broadly known as parts of the Global South, and through ignoring, under-representation, under-referencing, pigeonholing, or appropriation of the “non-Western” scholarly perspectives in a globally canonizing body of work in the field. By questioning a deeply entrenched Eurocentrism in sound studies as well as curating of sound/media art, the project will aim to open the discourse drawing ideas from the sonic and media ontologies and epistemologies of the Global South, which have been historically undermined through an imperial and colonial ear. The project intends to fill this gulf by creating a fertile entry point to understand the unique sonic sensibility and aesthetics of the Global South.

More information: http://budhaditya.org/projects/connecting-resonances/

Connecting Resonance

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