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Visual Representations of the Korean Nation-State: 1880s-1910s (2023)
Thesis
Son, J. Visual Representations of the Korean Nation-State: 1880s-1910s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis investigates visual representations of the Korean nation-state from the 1880s to the 1910s and their impacts on state and nation-building of the period. After the opening of ports in 1897, Korea faced the task of reconciling the tradition... Read More about Visual Representations of the Korean Nation-State: 1880s-1910s.

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.

Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene: Development of the Government-Sponsored Juried Art Exhibition Kanten in Japan 1907-1923, and in Choson in the 1920s (2023)
Thesis
Valentova, N. Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene: Development of the Government-Sponsored Juried Art Exhibition Kanten in Japan 1907-1923, and in Choson in the 1920s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is the first critical examination of the Kanten as an institution. Mirroring the national French salon, it differed from the large-scale export-driven national expositions or small exhibitions of the private art associations, creating an... Read More about Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene: Development of the Government-Sponsored Juried Art Exhibition Kanten in Japan 1907-1923, and in Choson in the 1920s.

The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music (2023)
Thesis
Gardner, J. A. The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

It has become commonplace today to invoke the word improvisation when discussing the soloistic melodic dimensions of the music of the kora, the twenty-one-string bridge harp of the Mande people of West Africa. Typically, the term is used to denote th... Read More about The Course of the Hand: Formulas, Creativity, and Processes of ‘Improvisation’ in Mande Kora Music.

Ogyen Choling in Bhutan: an Interpretation of the Temple and its Art (2023)
Thesis
Filsnoël, M. Ogyen Choling in Bhutan: an Interpretation of the Temple and its Art. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis contains a detailed interpretation of the significance and the importance of the religious site at Ogyen Choling (o rgyan chos gling) - which was the seat, in central Bhutan, of the treasure revealer (gter ston) of the Nyingma tradition o... Read More about Ogyen Choling in Bhutan: an Interpretation of the Temple and its Art.

The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame (2022)
Journal Article
Pierson, S. (2022). The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame. Transfer (Heidelberg), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.48640/tf.2022.1.91511

In the British Museum collection, there is an eighteenth-century Chinese teapot that is named on its label ‘Dr Johnson’s teapot’. Evoking the famous lexicographer and tea drinker Samuel Johnson (1708-84), this teapot has been given a name that associ... Read More about The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame.

‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity (2022)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2022). ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity. Art History, 45(5), 1078-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12692

This essay traces the histories and reverberations of the socialist scholarship programmes which brought art and graphic design students from Africa to the USSR during the 1980s. Drawing on the accounts and archives of art students and cultural worke... Read More about ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity.

Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time (2022)
Digital Artefact
Widdess, R., Sowa, A., & Sowa, R. (2022). Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time. [Video]

For the inhabitants of Bhaktapur, a historic town in Nepal, Gũlā is a sacred month. It is celebrated with processions, music, and other observances in the streets, squares and temples of the town, culminating with a festival in which Buddha statues p... Read More about Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time.

Feeling in Truth (2022)
Digital Artefact
Laiapea, M. (2022). Feeling in Truth. [Video]

An audiovisual reflection that seeks to decode the powerful sound-image relationship in the music art video Truth by Kamasi Washington and AG Rojas. Through a multimodal approach the essay explores forms of frequency and the video's affective impact.

Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage (2022)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2022). Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage. In H. Prabha Ray, S. Kulshreshtha, & U. Suvrathan (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples: Materiality, Social History and Practice (197-217). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097709-15

Pilgrimage is a popular ritual practice shared by many of the religions of South Asia. Many Hindus consider the power of deities to be greater at specific places and it is to these locations that many Hindus journey to on pilgrimage. This chapter wil... Read More about Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage.