6th Young Folklorists’ Lecture Series II Folklore Studies Network II CFSR I Dr. Barnashree Khasnobis

Folklore Studies Network
Invites you to the Sixth Lecture of the Young Folklorists’ Lecture Series
“Musiking through Museum: The Materiality of Music in Museums”
By Dr. Barnashree Khasnobis
Assistant Professor of English at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore
Abstract Musiking through Museum: The Materiality of Music in Museums
Abstract: Museums have always been perceived as emblems of cultural identities. Museums dedicated to music display its material culture related to history, performance, and preservation processes. The increasing digital archiving technologies are necessary for the preservation of musical heritage but remain divorced from the tangible phenomenon of ‘lived experience.’ The materiality of music is important in understanding the evolution, dissemination, and production of music cultures. This lecture focuses on the ‘material turn’ in musicology that gives impetus to the discourse of museums’ attempt at preserving music instruments, notations, manuscripts, and music production in contemporary times. This session engages with the association of museums as places of history and their contribution to popular culture. These points of observation underscore current practices of museums, with a special focus on India’s first Interactive Music Museum in Bangalore that offers a scope of wide explorations into the study of sounds in relation to Indian culture.
Keywords: Material Turn in Music, Museums of Music, Music as Cultural Identity, Preservation of Indian Music, History of Indian Music, Indian Music in Popular Culture.
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