Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6806188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gurminder Kaur Bhogal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gurminder Kaur |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhogal |
| SIGNATURE | BHOGAL G K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tracking the Harmonium from Christian Missionary Hymns to Sikh Kirtan
The harmonium is prominent in Sikh practices of devotional music known as kirtan and yet its significance has barely been addressed in Euro-American scholarship. Following on the heels of a recent ban against using the instrument at the holiest temple of the Sikhs, Harmandir Sahib (popularly known as the Golden Temple), this article explores how the ban seeks to discard this colonial instrument and return to playing traditional string instruments…
Orchestral Tissue, Subordinate Arabesques, and Turning Inward in Maurice Ravel'sBoléro
In response to Maurice Ravel's puzzling description ofBoléroas "orchestral tissue without music," this article explores how he privileges timbre over techniques traditionally associated with musical development. Even as I acknowledge longstanding perceptions ofBoléroas a piece that is characterized by monotony and repetition, I show how Ravel relies on alternating decorative and arabesque melodies to highlight a parallel process of timbral variat…
Listening to female voices in Sikh kirtan
This paper examines sound recordings by female kirtaniye in an effort to redress the absence of women in historical narratives about Punjab. A sustained discussion of listening and performance practices in the Sikh tradition sheds light on the kirtan of Bibi Jaswant Kaur, Khushi Bai, Ajit Kaur, Surinder Kaur, and Tilly Bai, among others. An acousmatic approach calls attention to the expressive voices and disciplined bodies of female kirtaniye as …
Eye hEar[
Simon Shaw-Miller’s Eye hEar[:] The Visual in Music is the second instalment in his quest to highlight ‘the visual as the constant, silent partner of music’ (p. xi). The initial journey began in the successful monograph Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage (New Haven and London, 2002). Eye hEar is a philosophical inquiry that explores how aspects of the visual are manifest in ‘music’, broadly defined by Shaw-Miller in terms o…
Lakmé’s Echoing Jewels1
This chapter focuses on the title character in Delibes’ Lakmé. In particular, the chapter attempts to illuminate Lakmé’s excessive, melismatic solo utterances by tapping into her devotional fervor and high social status as the daughter of a Hindu Brahmin, rather than relegating her to the realm of the madwoman, seductress, or psychotic—spaces where female characters who “speak” in excessive ornament have traditionally been placed. Investigating c…
The Ballets of Maurice Ravel
It is not often that we come across a scholarly study of ballet, let alone one devoted to Maurice Ravel's musical accomplishments. In her second contribution to scholarship on Ravel within six years, Deborah Mawer manages to achieve both within a single volume. Since Arbie Orenstein's landmark biography (1975) and translation of Ravel's correspondence, articles, and interviews (1990), this is among the first English-language publications to under…
Orchestral Tissue, Subordinate Arabesques, and Turning Inward in Maurice Ravel'sBoléro
In response to Maurice Ravel's puzzling description ofBoléroas "orchestral tissue without music," this article explores how he privileges timbre over techniques traditionally associated with musical development. Even as I acknowledge longstanding perceptions ofBoléroas a piece that is characterized by monotony and repetition, I show how Ravel relies on alternating decorative and arabesque melodies to highlight a parallel process of timbral variat…
The Ballets of Maurice Ravel
It is not often that we come across a scholarly study of ballet, let alone one devoted to Maurice Ravel's musical accomplishments. In her second contribution to scholarship on Ravel within six years, Deborah Mawer manages to achieve both within a single volume. Since Arbie Orenstein's landmark biography (1975) and translation of Ravel's correspondence, articles, and interviews (1990), this is among the first English-language publications to under…
Lakmé’s Echoing Jewels1
This chapter focuses on the title character in Delibes’ Lakmé. In particular, the chapter attempts to illuminate Lakmé’s excessive, melismatic solo utterances by tapping into her devotional fervor and high social status as the daughter of a Hindu Brahmin, rather than relegating her to the realm of the madwoman, seductress, or psychotic—spaces where female characters who “speak” in excessive ornament have traditionally been placed. Investigating c…
Eye hEar[
Simon Shaw-Miller’s Eye hEar[:] The Visual in Music is the second instalment in his quest to highlight ‘the visual as the constant, silent partner of music’ (p. xi). The initial journey began in the successful monograph Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage (New Haven and London, 2002). Eye hEar is a philosophical inquiry that explores how aspects of the visual are manifest in ‘music’, broadly defined by Shaw-Miller in terms o…
Listening to female voices in Sikh kirtan
This paper examines sound recordings by female kirtaniye in an effort to redress the absence of women in historical narratives about Punjab. A sustained discussion of listening and performance practices in the Sikh tradition sheds light on the kirtan of Bibi Jaswant Kaur, Khushi Bai, Ajit Kaur, Surinder Kaur, and Tilly Bai, among others. An acousmatic approach calls attention to the expressive voices and disciplined bodies of female kirtaniye as …
Orchestral Tissue, Subordinate Arabesques, and Turning Inward in Maurice Ravel'sBoléro
In response to Maurice Ravel's puzzling description ofBoléroas "orchestral tissue without music," this article explores how he privileges timbre over techniques traditionally associated with musical development. Even as I acknowledge longstanding perceptions ofBoléroas a piece that is characterized by monotony and repetition, I show how Ravel relies on alternating decorative and arabesque melodies to highlight a parallel process of timbral variat…
Tracking the Harmonium from Christian Missionary Hymns to Sikh Kirtan
The harmonium is prominent in Sikh practices of devotional music known as kirtan and yet its significance has barely been addressed in Euro-American scholarship. Following on the heels of a recent ban against using the instrument at the holiest temple of the Sikhs, Harmandir Sahib (popularly known as the Golden Temple), this article explores how the ban seeks to discard this colonial instrument and return to playing traditional string instruments…
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