All Outputs (3)

A Soundtrack for Reimagining Pakistan? Coke Studio, memory, and the music video (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D., & Mahmood, R. (2019). A Soundtrack for Reimagining Pakistan? Coke Studio, memory, and the music video. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 10(2), 111-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0974927619896771

Since 2007, Coke Studio has rapidly become one of the most influential platforms in televisual, digital and musical media, and has assumed a significant role in generating new narratives about Pakistani modernity. The musical pieces in Coke Studio’s... Read More about A Soundtrack for Reimagining Pakistan? Coke Studio, memory, and the music video.

Playing the Spinal Chord: Tantric Musicology and Bengali Songs in the Nineteenth Century (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D. (2019). Playing the Spinal Chord: Tantric Musicology and Bengali Songs in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of Hindu Studies, 12(3), 319-338. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiz017

Across the nineteenth century, Bengali songbook editors applied musicological theory to their tantric religious practices. Responding to the new possibilities of musical publishing, these editors developed innovative techniques of relating the body t... Read More about Playing the Spinal Chord: Tantric Musicology and Bengali Songs in the Nineteenth Century.

Reflecting in the Vernacular: Translation and Transmission in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D. (2019). Reflecting in the Vernacular: Translation and Transmission in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39(1), 96-110. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493810

In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hind... Read More about Reflecting in the Vernacular: Translation and Transmission in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India.