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'There is no modesty or shame in this city': what Bengali Muslims heard in colonial Rangoon, c.1900 (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, R. D. (2023). 'There is no modesty or shame in this city': what Bengali Muslims heard in colonial Rangoon, c.1900. In J. Sykes, & J. Byl (Eds.), Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape (33-53). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.160.b

The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal (2023)
Book
Williams, R. D. (2023). The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal. The University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226825441.001.0001

How far did colonialism transform north Indian music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the political landscape bleed into aesthetics, music, dance, and poetry? Examining musical culture through a diverse and multil... Read More about The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal.

Querying ‘Global’ Music History: Significant Geographies between Goswami Pannalal and Queen Victoria (2023)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D. (2023). Querying ‘Global’ Music History: Significant Geographies between Goswami Pannalal and Queen Victoria. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 54, 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/rrc.2023.1

Global music history projects have become increasingly popular in recent years. Going global has its advantages: it develops conversations between researchers working on disparate regions; it sheds light on larger frameworks that are less evident on... Read More about Querying ‘Global’ Music History: Significant Geographies between Goswami Pannalal and Queen Victoria.

【翻訳】ダカニー・ウルドゥー物語詩『愛の花園』より 宴席の装飾，絵画と絨毯，音楽と舞踊 (2023)
Journal Article
Kitada, M., & Williams, R. (2023). 【翻訳】ダカニー・ウルドゥー物語詩『愛の花園』より 宴席の装飾，絵画と絨毯，音楽と舞踊. Gengo bunka kenkyū (Osaka. 1975), 49, 173-179. https://doi.org/10.18910/90951

The Gulšan-e-‘Išq (completed 1658 CE) is one of the representative works by Nuṣratī (died 1674 CE) who was the greatest poet in Dakani Urdu from Bijapur Kingdom. In this paper, the description of decoration of the place of banquet and the description... Read More about 【翻訳】ダカニー・ウルドゥー物語詩『愛の花園』より 宴席の装飾，絵画と絨毯，音楽と舞踊.

Review of: Burger, Maya / Cattoni, Nadia (Hg.): Early Modern India. Literatures and Images, Texts and Languages. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Library 2019. XXII, 333 S. m. Abb. 8°. € 46,90. ISBN 978-3-946742-45-6. (2023)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D. (2023). Review of: Burger, Maya / Cattoni, Nadia (Hg.): Early Modern India. Literatures and Images, Texts and Languages. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Library 2019. XXII, 333 S. m. Abb. 8°. € 46,90. ISBN 978-3-946742-45-6. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 117(4-5), 421-424. https://doi.org/10.1515/olzg-2022-0129

Sikh Patronage of Hindustani Music and Śabad Kīrtan in Colonial Punjab, 1857-1947 (2023)
Thesis
Singh, K. J. Sikh Patronage of Hindustani Music and Śabad Kīrtan in Colonial Punjab, 1857-1947. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Despite cohabiting overlapping social spheres, north India’s music traditions are too often studied in isolation from one another, negating their inherent interrelatedness. Adopting a more inclusive approach with regard to two major traditions of nor... Read More about Sikh Patronage of Hindustani Music and Śabad Kīrtan in Colonial Punjab, 1857-1947.