Musical Nationalism and Nepal's Maoist Movement
Musical Nationalism and Nepal's Maoist Movement
Dr. Anna Stirr (Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University)
Date: 9 February 2010Time: 5:15 PM
Finishes: 9 February 2010Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G3
Type of Event: Seminar
Series: Music Department Public Seminars
Musical nationalism and emotional ideologies in a Maoist opera first performed at a crucial juncture of the People's War.
Anna Stirr received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2009 with a thesis on migration, gender, and ideas of nationhood in the commercial improvised song duels known as dohori song. Her current research looks at the international migration paths that support the Nepali folk music industry and contribute to shaping an ideas of gender and nation based on rurality, rusticity, and marginality. This research takes her to the Gurkha camps in the UK, and the Nepali nightclubs of Kathmandu, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai. Anna is also a performer of dohori song and can be seen improvising with the best of them, and sometimes succeeding.
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