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SUMMARY:Voicing Aspiration: Bollywood Songs and Dreamwork in Contemporary India
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Anaar Desai-Stephens (Music\, CUNY) In this talk\, I explore how Bollywood songs have become a powerful medium for dreaming\, striving\, and self-making in twenty-first-century India. Once dismissed as escapist fantasy\, Bollywood’s emotionally charged songs now serve as tools for self-transformation in what has been dubbed “Aspirational India.” Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in Mumbai\, I trace how upcoming singers\, amateur students\, teachers\, and Bollywood producers use Bollywood songs to perform what I call “dreamwork”: the musical and discursive work of promoting\, imagining\,
LOCATION:Uris Hall
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