Apr 15 2023 to Apr 15 2023 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

A panel of scholars and musicians will engage in a discussion with author Sebanti Chatterjee on her recent book, Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (published by Bloomsbury Academic, February 2023). The book uses the lens of sound and musical practices to tell the stories of two Christian communities in Goa and Meghalaya and introduces voice and genre as social objects. Given the imperial pasts of both regions, the book inquires how indigenous and cosmopolitan forces shape the sacred music repositories and their manifestations. The book takes us on a fascinating sojourn through seminaries, Bollywood Broadway, festivals, recitals, and belonging. Through the rituals of performativity and everyday interpretations of devotion, choral voices illuminate the interior and public lives of the sacred. Image Credits: Header: Santiago Lusardi Girelli conducting the Goa University Choir at the Monte Chapel during the Monte Festival in 2014. Photo credit, Old Goa Music Society. Thumbnail and Poster: Book cover, Raisa Janice Vaz, illustrator.