EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 7 and 9:15 a.m-1 p.m. Oct. 8, 2016

EVENT: “Sound and South Asia”

This two-day conference, free and open to the public, assembles an international group of scholars to explore sound in South Asia in all realms of life—from instruments of sound and sound in performance to sonic commodities and the sound of images.

Panelists will explore and answer several interrelated questions. How does sound become a commodity in South Asia, whether through its purchase in music stores or through its theft in digital arenas? How do the instruments through which we receive sound, like the radio and the hearing aid, shape our understandings of the social worlds we inhabit? What might we learn from studying sound in performance contexts that are not solely focused on music, such as Urdu poetry and Tamilian dance? And might South Asian film and moving image media, with their distinctive song-and-dance traditions, provide a distinctively subcontinental ideal for the use of sound?

PLACE: U-M Center for South Asian Studies, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: Benefactors Ranveer and Adarsh Trehan, U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts with additional support from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance; departments of Communication Studies, History, English Language and Literature, and Screen Arts and Cultures; Global Media Studies Initiative; and Initiative on Disability Studies.

INFORMATION: myumi.ch/J2PoX