Collision of Genres and Collusion of Participants: Hindu Nationalism and Devotional Song in Western India

A lecture by Anna Schultz, Assistant Professor (Ethnomusicology), Department of Music; co-sponsored by the Department of Music.
Professor Schultz specializes in music of South Asia, music and nationalism, music and religious experience, Indo-Caribbean music, diaspora and migration, music transmission, Hindi film music, Jewish music in India, and country and bluegrass music. Her Ph.D. dissertation Rashtriya Kirtan of Maharashtra: Musical Fragments of Nationalist Politics and she has conducted extensive ethnographic research in India.
She is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press on the role of regional (Maharashtrian) performance idioms in the construction of religious nationalism in India.  Published and forthcoming articles and book chapters on the regional performance of Hindu nationalism, style and patronage in Marathi kirtan, aesthetics of suffering in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora, mobile recording technology and ethnomusicological research, and musical narratives of race and ethnicity in the song Kentucky.