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3.00 Credits
Miner. This is a performance course open to students who have completed both semestersof Beginning Sitar, or to others by permission from the instructor. Students will work with right and left-hand techniques, study three ragas in depth, learn the contours of several other ragas, and work with concepts of tala, composition, and improvisation. Assigned readings and listenings will complement the performed material. A group performance will be given at the end of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. This is a continuation of an intermediate performance course in the North Indian sitar.It is open to students by permission of the instructor. Students who play other instruments and have had at least a beginning level of training in Hindustani music may also join, with the permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Novetzke. This course selectively surveys modern media in South Asia, with an emphasis on India and the interactions between India and other South Asian countries. The media we'll examine include novels, non-fiction monographs, films, cartoons, clothing, and cricket. We'll explore the effects of colonialism, globalism, capitalism, "Orientalism", and modernity on portrayals of various facets of South Asian life, including nationalism, religion, diasporic life, and gender. The course assumes no previous knowledge of South Asian history or culture, and all are welcome.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. Hindustani and Karnatak music are among the great classical music systems of the world. Developed in temple, shrine, court, and concert stage environments in North and South India,they have a strong contemporary following in urban South Asia and a significant international presence. This course is an introduction to theory, structures, instruments, and aesthetics. We will work with primary and secondary texts, recordings, videos, and live performances. Topics will cover selected aspects of raga, tala, composition, improvisation and social contexts. The course aims to give students analytical and listening skills with which to approach and appreciate India's classical music. No prior music training is required.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. A great variety of song and instrumental genres have thrived in the Hindu and Muslim milieus of North India and Pakistan. In this course we examine a selection of urban and rural musics, such as instrumental music of Baluchistan, qawwali in Delhi, the garba of Gujarat, ballad singing of Rajasthan and the urban music of Calcutta. We will explore the sounds, poetry, historical, and social contexts of chosen genres and trace aspects of continuity and adaptation in the changing environment of contemporary South Asia. Readings are supplemented by audio-visual material and live performances.
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3.00 Credits
Behl. The aim of this course is to explore the complex engagement of Indian lit. with modernity and postmodernity, focusing on novels, short stories, and poems,as well as more general critical readings. The emphasis will be on linking modeof narrative with issues of history and politics, authorship, gender, and postcolonial theory. We will begin by examining works written within the context, both in English and in Indian languages (in translation).The segments of the course focus on nationalism, in particular the contrasted trope of modernity vs. tradition, as well as partition, gender, and diaspora. We will examine issues of migrancy, cultural authenticity and hybridity, as well as the politics of identity- formation in today's transnational cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. In this course we will explore the two Indian epic masterpieces, the Ramayaoa and the Mahabharata, poems that are among the most important pieces of imaginative writing in world history. By examining these, both through translation of their Sanskrit originals as well as reworkings in test and performance (including film and other media), we'll try to understand the fundamental claims made by the epics about family and political life, the ethics of violence, and the status of gender. The epics present startling and contrasting understandings of the social world in its ideal state as well as in its destruction, and these visions of order and chaos will be our recurrent themes throughout. This course is introductory and assumes no previous knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Draupadi, Sita, Vasantasena, Kannaki: The literature of ancient India presents unforgettable portraits of many powerful women. In this course we will read their stories and reflect on the culture that imagined them. While focusing on literary representation, we will also be concerned with the roles played by women in historical South Asia, drawing widely on the evidence of art history, ethnography, and archaeological data. Though the majority of ancient Indian texts (in Sanskrit and other languages) were undoubtedly written by and for men, there do exist texts written by female authors, and we will also examine these traces of authentic women's voices.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Loomba. Since the sixteenth century English has been, among other things, an imperial language, and ideas about empire and imperialism have shaped not only many of English literature's central texts but also the development of English literary study as a discipline. This course is an introduction to the way imperial contact and changing ideas about empire and decolonization have shaped literature in English from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. We will consider historical and cultural materials to offer contexts for literary production of texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The course also will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the way literary and cultural representations of Europe have been influenced by changing ideas about empire and imperialism. Different versions of the course will vary in the historical and cultural material they cover as they offer a context for literary production.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fleming. Hindu religious beliefs and practices from the earliest period to the present, stressing contemporary religious thought, performances, and institutions and their historical backgrounds. Basic human issues such as the origin and nature of the world and society, the meaning of personal existence, sex, birth, death, human responsibility, the family, destiny, and the variety of Hindu understandings of them as revealed in myth, story, philosophy, and ritual will be the focus of this course. Readings will mostly be original sources in English translation.
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