Lute Diplomacy
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free admission |
kein Ticket erforderlich |
Duration: 60 min |
English |
Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
Radhey Shyam Sharma is a fourth-generation instrument maker. He mainly makes sitars and other classical Indian instruments. In July, he will be a guest at the Musical Instrument Collection of the Ethnologisches Museums and Museum für Asiatische Kunst to familiarise himself with the instruments in the collection and contribute his knowledge.
Pramantha Tagore is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago. His research and scholarship explore the interplay between music, race, and cultural politics in the long nineteenth century. In 1877, Raja Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore donated over 70 musical instruments to the Ethnologisches Museum in order to promote comparative instrument research and strengthen musical connections between cultures, because: All people are musicians.
The two guests in residence from India talk to ethnomusicologist Maurice Mengel, Head of the Department of Music and Media at the Ethnologisches Museums and Museum für Asiatische Kunst.
Moderation: Jan Linders
At the age of twenty, he started making sitar and classical Indian instruments in Varanasi, India. His family has been making classical Indian instruments for four generations and his father and other family members have worked in this field, as has his son Anand. He studied at the Banaras Hindu University. He visited Germany in 1996, 2006 and 2014 to exchange ideas about instrument making and sound production.
Pramantha Tagore’s research and scholarship explore the interplay between music, race, and cultural politics in the long nineteenth century. A prominent emphasis of his work has been on the historical practices of music-making in modern South Asia, in particular, colonial Bengal, and how these practices help shape cultural identities. He is presently a Neubauer Family Foundation Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Music, and holds simultaneous positions as Honorary Fellow and Associate Director of the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies International (CNCSI) based at Durham University and the International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA). He is also a Ralph Nicholas South Asia Fellow at the University of Chicago’s International House, and a 2023-24 Elinor Ostrom Fellow at the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University. His previous appointment at the University of Chicago was supported through a generous grant from the Fulbright Foundation via a Nehru-Fulbright Visiting Doctoral Fellowship.