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Book Launch: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell's "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature" | 11 July 2024, 6pm
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Guest Lecture: Melanie Ashe (Monash): " 40 Years of the Wasteland: The Making of Mad Max in Far West New South Wales, Australia" | 4 July 2024, 4pm
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Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, FBA (King's College): "Transoceanic Belonging: Activating Memories of Portuguese Presence in Goa" | 6 June 2024
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TraCe Event: “Rethinking Cosmopolitan Memory in Post-Colonial Contexts” | An international and interdisciplinary Roundtable
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TraCe Book Talk on May 2: Anoma Pieris on Decolonial Memorialisation and Intersectional Sovereignty
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Dr. Pavan Malreddy / Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler
Department of English and American Studies
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32352
Email: c.argast@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
D-60629 Frankfurt am Main
To make an appointment:
Phone: 069/798-32021
Email: salerno-petersen@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Tuesday 14 November, 6pm, SH 2.105 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend, Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4)
Am 14. November wird Christopher L. Ballengee seine Dokumentation Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora über Musik, Politik und Zugehörigkeit in Trinidad und Tobago am Institut für Musikwissenschaft vorführen. Der Regisseur und Musikethnologe wird eine Einführung geben und nach dem Film für Diskussion und Fragen zur Verfügung stehen.
About the film
Brought to Trinidad by indentured laborers from India who first arrived in 1845, tassa drumming has become an important marker of Indian Trinidadian cultural identity. The film explores both musical and political elements of tassa performance, focusing on the life and family of noted drummer Lenny Kumar. As the story unfolds, tassa emerges as a metaphor for Indian Caribbean culture, rooted in India while also thoroughly Caribbean.
About Christopher L. Ballengee
Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist and Associate Professor of Music at Anne Arundel Community College (Maryland, USA). He has researched Indian music in Trinidad and the Caribbean community in Florida since 2007. He was the inaugural Diego Carpitella Visual Ethnomusicology fellow at the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies (Venice, Italy) in 2018-2019, which supported the production of Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora.