ASIA CENTRE PUBLIC SEMINAR
Embracing the Canonical: Tradition and Modernity in Indian Music
Professor Lakshmi Subramaniam
(Senior Fellow in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Currently Senior Visiting Fellow, CAPSTRANS University of Wollongong)
Professor Subramaniam delivered the above seminar on Tuesday 10 October 2006.
Professor Howard Brasted, Director, UNEAC introduces Professor Subramaniam
Professor Subramaniam fields questions from the audience.
Professor Subramaniam’s research focuses on music and performance in Modern South India, diasporic cultural production and practices with special reference to Tamils in South East Asia, and the Indian Ocean in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Her recent publications include:
From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy: A Social History of Music in South India. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006, x, 196 p., illus. ISBN 0-19-567835-4.