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SUMMARY:The Music of the Mystics—Towards understand, appreciating & singing. led by Vidya Rao (Registration Closed)
DESCRIPTION:This is planned as a five-day workshop. It will include listening, discussing and understanding, and learning to sing.\nNo previous knowledge of music is needed.\nThere are at least several aspects to consider for discussions around the experience of listening to music and singing it ourselves: the poetry, the underlying philosophical concepts, and the musical forms.\nPoetry, the meanings of the poetry, life histories of the poets, and even of contemporary interpreters have been dealt with most often in other forums. Embedded philosophical ideas and connections have also been dealt with– to some extent. This workshop hopes to look at all those aspects, while also considering musical forms used by different groups/singers in performance, and how musical form to creates its own set of meanings.\nThere are other aspects that may be less obvious but would certainly be important to consider. We will try and unearth some of these also through discussion and attempt to understand these as well. One such could well be the notion of communities that come into being through the act of singing. The notion of community itself, and its solidity/transience. Another would be unearthing notions that we might now call contemporary questions and concerns.\n1. The poetry of bhakti\nWe would take 4 verses by different poets– ex. Kabir, Surdas, Meera, and Amir Khusrau—all of whom are well-known. We will attempt to see their work through lenses poetic, philosophical, social, and musical. In the course of the discussion, other perspectives may open up, and we would welcome this.\n2. The philosophical ideas within the poetry\nWhat are the references contained within it… The connection between the ideas within these texts and the reminders that we may perceive of Buddhist teachings– like the four immeasurables, shunyata, pratitya samutpada.\n3. The music, the musical style.\nDifferent styles and their effect on the poetry and its meanings.\n4. Notions of the community\nIn the process, and at every stage other questions will come up. One of these that particularly interests me is the notion of community that is created by the music/ at the moment of singing.\n5. Other questions of contemporary significance\nMystic poetry in the light of our contemporary concerns is what we would explore.\nIssues around caste, women’s status, speech and action, equality, etc. Since mystics have also been voices of protest, exploration of what exactly is this voice of protest.\nThe workshop is planned as an in-depth live 5 days long workshop.\nParticipants should register beforehand and should be prepared to attend all sessions.\nThe workshop will use a combination of actual learning of songs, and singing by participants, plus careful and mindful listening to other recordings.\nVidya Rao is a performer of thumri-dadra and ghazal. For many years the\ndisciple of the legendary singer, the late Vidushi Naina Devi, she continued\nher study of this form under the late Vidushi Shanti Hiranand and the late\nVidushi Girija Devi. Her initial training in khayal was under the late Prof.\nB.N. Datta and thereafter under Pandit Mani Prasad.\nShe studied Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, and has worked\nas a Research Associate with the Administrative Staff of India (Hyderabad)\nand the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (Delhi). She has been\nEditor, Social Sciences with Orient Blackswan publishers (Delhi), where\nshe now continues to work as an Editorial Consultant.\nAn award-winning artist, Vidya Rao has performed at national and\ninternational forums to appreciative audiences. She has lectured at many\nforums, and has conducted workshops and lecture-demonstrations. She\nhas composed and sung for the theatre, film and dance, and has also\nrecorded several CDs.\nHer repertoire ranges over thumri-dadra, ghazal and allied forms, the songs\nof medieval sufi and bhakti poets, verses from Hindu and Buddhist texts\nand the Islamic forms of naat, soz, nauha etc.\nShe has also researched and written extensively on music and the\nperforming arts. Her research and writing work has focused on gender and\nmusical form, and her work has been published in academic journals and\nas chapters in books. Her book ‘Heart to Heart: Remembering Nainaji’ is\na memoir of life with her guru Naina Devi.\nVidya Rao was the recipient of a Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, and\na Senior Fellowship from the Department of Culture, GOI. She has been\nVisiting Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru\nUniversity, New Delhi, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced\nStudy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. In 2012-2013, she was Fellow at the\nInstitute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France. In 2014 she was Artist in\nResidence at Smith College and the Five Colleges Inc. She has been\nadviser to the Kabir Project, has recorded a CD for them and also\ntranslated the poetry included in the booklets brought out by the project.\n \n \n \n \n \n
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