Punjab Sounds Colloquium [Online, Zoom]

University of Sheffield

PUNJAB SOUNDS: AFFECT, TECHNOLOGY AND THE AURAL ACROSS REGION & NATION

<p>Punjabi music, characterised by the sounds of the <em>ḍhol</em>, <em>bhaṅgṛā</em> music and the bass-laden beats of rap-infused Punjabi lyrics, has a ubiquity and global popularity that are perhaps rivalled only by the Hindi film song. In the process, it is often homogenised. We complicate this prevalent stereotyping by excavating the twentieth-century genealogies of Punjab’s sounds and mapping the several alternative trajectories of sound and music in the region. Join us for a 3 Day Colloquium, held online on Zoom, featuring new research by scholars on Punjab’s Sounds from across the three Punjabs: in India, Pakistan, and in the Diaspora. </p>
<strong>The first day of the Colloquium Monday, 16 August, will be marked  with a concert of Punjabi folk music in the evening (5:00-6:30 pm) featuring the </strong><em><strong>ḍholī  </strong></em><strong>Parv Kaur (founder of the first female </strong><em><strong>ḍhol</strong></em><strong> ensemble).</strong><h3>Organisers:</h3><p>Dr Radha Kapuria, University of Sheffield &amp; Dr Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University, Delhi</p><p><strong>Email: punjabsounds@gmail.com </strong></p><p><strong>Twitter: @PunjabSounds</strong></p>

<h1>Punjab Sounds Colloquium Program</h1><h1></h1><h2>Day 1: Monday, 16 August 2021</h2><p><strong>12:30 pm BST / 5 pm IST: Welcome, Introductions &amp;  Opening Remarks (Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University Delhi and Radha Kapuria, University of Sheffield)</strong></p><h3></h3><h3>1.00 pm–2.30 pm: Panel 1 ┃Sonic Identities</h3><blockquote>Discussants: Yogesh Snehi, Ambedkar University Delhi ◆ Bindu Menon, Azim Premji University</blockquote><p>1. Performing the ‘authentic’ sounds: Kavishri and Punjabi Identity (Navkiran Natt, Delhi) </p><p>2. Dhamal: A Journey from Shrines to Films (Zafar Iqbal, Lahore) </p><p>3. Blind Musicians at Sikh Shrines (Naresh Kumar, New Delhi)</p><p></p><p><strong>2.30 pm–2.45 pm: Tea Break &amp; Networking</strong></p><h3></h3><h3>2.45 pm– 4.15 pm: Panel 2 ┃Sounding Space and Geographies </h3><blockquote>Discussants: Anjali Gera Roy, IIT Kharagpur ◆ Michael Nijhawan, York, Canada </blockquote><p>4. One Transnation under a Groove: Genealogies of ‘Chaal’ (Gibb Schreffler, Pomona, California) </p><p>5. Classical Music of West Punjab: Where Sonic Transacts Social (Ghulam Ali Shair, Warwick) </p><p>6. Sound Features of Language Shift in Pakistani Punjabi (Sarah Beckham, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Umar Anjum, Lahore University of Management Sciences)</p><p></p><h3>5.00 pm to 6.30 pm: Online Concert by Eternal Taal (Birmingham.</h3>
Concert of Punjabi folksongs featuring  Parv Kaur on the <em>ḍhol</em> accompanied by two vocalists.<p><strong>****End of Day 1 *****</strong></p><h2></h2><h2>Day 2: Tuesday, 17 August 2021 </h2><h3>12.30 pm–2.00 pm: Panel 3 ┃ Film and Popular Music </h3><blockquote>Discussants: Rajinder Dudrah, Birmingham ◆Gwendolyn Sarah Kirk, Lahore University of Management Sciences</blockquote><p>1. &#x27;Yaar Tera Superstar, Desi Kalakaar&#x27;: Sonic Performativity of Punjabiyat and Affect in Yo Yo Honey Singh&#x27;s Music (Prashastika Sharma, Delhi)</p><p>2. Decoding Loudness: The Punjabi Soundscape in Bollywood (Shikha Jhingan, New Delhi) </p><p>3. Punjabiyat within Hindi-Urdu Cinema (Ravikant, Delhi)</p><p></p><p><strong>2.00 pm–2.15 pm: Tea Break &amp; Networking</strong></p><h3></h3><h3>2.15 pm– 3.45 pm: Panel 4 ┃The Punjabi Diaspora</h3><blockquote>Discussants: Virinder Kalra, Warwick ◆ Kavita Bhanot, Leicester</blockquote><p>4. Birmingham’s South Asian Music Academies: Practice, Performance and Sound (David Kerr, Birmingham/Johannesburg)</p><p>5. Mixing the legends–capitalising on nostalgia in diasporic Punjabi remix culture (Julia Szivak, Birmingham)  </p><p>6. Nostalgia, space and affect in British Asian music (Laura Leante, Durham)</p><p></p><p><strong>3:45 pm–4.00 pm: Tea Break </strong></p><p></p><h3>4.00 pm–5.30 pm: Panel 5 ┃Gender and Representation</h3><blockquote>Discussants: Anshu Malhotra, University of California (Santa Barbara) ◆ Katherine Butler Schofield, King&#x27;s College London</blockquote><p>7. Trinjan Audiotopias: Complaint, Desire, and the Bawdy in Punjabi Giddha Performance Practices (Kiran Sunar and Ranbir Johal, Vancouver) </p><p>8. Women, the Tabla and the Dhol/ak/i: (En)Gendering Percussion for Punjab and Beyond (Radha Kapuria, Sheffield)</p><p>9. Folkloric Poetic Traditions and Gender Relations: An Ethnomusicological Study of Sithnia’n as a Celebratory Resistance in the Punjab (Sumera Saleem, Sargodha)</p><p>*****End of Day 2*****</p><p></p><h2> Day 3: Wednesday, 18 August 2021</h2><h3>12.30 pm–2.00 pm: Panel 6 ┃Technology and Materiality</h3><blockquote>Discussants: Salma Siddique, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ◆ Aditi Deo, Ahmedabad University</blockquote><p>1. Modernity, Modality and Meaning: Technological Mediation of<em> Śabad Kīrtan </em>at the Golden Temple (James Kirit Singh, London) </p><p>2. Two metaphors of birha/Longing in Popular Punjabi Sufi Music (Sakoon Singh, Chandigarh)</p><p>3. Musical Subalternity, Ontology and Mediation: Sounding the Contested Genealogies of the Punjab gharānā (Ronit Ghosh, Chicago)</p><p></p><p><strong>2.00 pm–2.15 pm: Tea Break &amp; Networking</strong></p><p></p><h3>2.15 pm– 3.45 pm: Panel 7 ┃Affect and the Aural</h3><blockquote>Discussants: Thomas Hodgson, Oxford ◆ Omar Kasmani, Berlin </blockquote><p>4. The Double Sweetness of Honeyed Milk: the Sounds of <em>Saif al-Muluk </em>and the Formation of a Cosmopolitan Punjabi Selfhood (Taimoor Shahid, Chicago) </p><p>5. From identity to affect: Exploring technology and the sonic in Dalit Music (Radhika Kumar, New Delhi)</p><p>6. Youtube Qawwālī as Affective Solidarity in India-Pakistan Relations (Thomas Graves, Durham)</p><p><strong>3.45 pm–4.00 pm: Tea Break and Networking</strong></p><p><strong>4.00 pm-4.30 pm: Concluding Remarks (Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University Delhi and Radha Kapuria, University of Sheffield) </strong></p><p>Colloquium Concludes</p><p> *******************************************************************</p>

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