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Symposium: 'Wild but pleasing when understood': Hindustani airs and cultural translation

18 May 2012-18 May 2012, 15:00-18:00, Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus

School / area: Arts & Humanities
Department: Library Services and Department of Music
Location: Strand Campus
Location map: Strand: detail

This symposium will take William Hamilton Bird's Oriental miscellany  (1789) - the first published collection of Indian music transcribed from live performance into Western notation and adapted for harpsichord - as a starting point for examining art, culture, and music and dance performance practice in late18th and early 19th century India. Introducing the Hindustani air as a locus of Enlightenment thinking, it will explore the genre's meaning as an embodiment of contemporary political, philosophical and anthropological attitudes.  For full programme please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/engagement/Artistinresidence.aspx#News

 

 



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