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ERC Starting Grants:. Musical Transitions to European Colonialism in the eastern Indian Ocean Dr Katherine Butler SCHOFIELD King’s College London, UK. ERC Starting Grants. Musical Transitions to Colonialism. Penang. Melaka. Singapore. Overall Aims. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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ERC Starting Grants:
Musical Transitions to European Colonialism in the
eastern Indian Ocean
Dr Katherine Butler SCHOFIELDKing’s College London, UK
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ERC Starting Grants
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Singapore
Penang
Melaka
Musical Transitions to Colonialism
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Overall Aims• To produce a comprehensive connected history of the transition
between pre-colonial and colonial musical fields.
• Focus on the eastern Indian Ocean: India and the Malay World in the period of British expansion, c.1750-1900.
• From Muslim courts to British colonialism; from Persianate knowledge systems to post-Enlightenment rationalism.
• KEY DEBATE: The extent and nature of colonialism’s impact on the cultures and knowledge systems of the colonised.
• KEY HYPOTHESIS: That there was a gradual and incomplete transformation of musical fields and knowledge systems, not the radical disjuncture that is currently postulated.
• KEY METHODOLOGY: Archival (& field) research in Asian and European languages; combining ethnomusicology and history.
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Methodology: Three Case Studies• “Vertical” transitions:
chronological, from pre-colonial Muslim courts in North India and Malay World to British colonialism.
• “Horizontal” trans-itions: geographical, between India and the Malay World.
• Awadh Case Study
• Malay Case Study
• India-Malay CS
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Innovative Aspects
This project will be the first to:
• Address the critical period of transition from pre-colonial to colonial musical knowledge systems in South & Southeast Asia, c.1780-1870.
• Conduct in-depth archival research on Indian and Malay music that connects and combines European- and Asian-language sources and critically examines their relationships over time.
• Consider India and the Malay World as an inter-regional arena for the purposes of studying Asian musics under colonialism.
• Produce a detailed history of music in the Malay World before c.1870.
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Research Team
Principal InvestigatorAdministrative Assistant (20%)
ACS
Principal Investigator
3 Visiting Fellows
1 PhD student(under PI’s supervision)
MCS
MCS Post-Doc
0.5 Visiting Fellow
1 PhD student(under PI’s supervision)
IMCS
IMCS Post-Doc
Principal Investigator
0.5 Visiting Fellow
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BudgetOverall: €1,181,555
Major items of expenditure:
• Salary costs (Personnel): €705K• Travel and subsistence for visiting fellows (ODC: Other): €89K• Travel and subsistence for research trips (ODC: Travel): €152K
Subcontracting:
• First-draft translations: €16K• Audit: €7.5K
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Application process• Sept 2009: Preparation of application (deadline December).
Close consultation with KCL research office, discussion with prospective team members, preparation of budget, writing of grant proposal, drafts read by senior members of department.
• Apr 2010: Informed of shortlisting.
• May 2010: Interview in Brussels. 10 min presentation and lengthy Q&A with large panel of senior scholars in arts and humanities broadly.
• July 2010: Awarded the grant in principle; enter Grant Negotiation. Editing and rewriting of application documents in line with suggestions from expert reviewers.
• Sept 2010: Grant Agreement signed
• Jan 2011: Grant started
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With thanks to the European Research Council
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Contribution to the Field• To provide new histories that more comprehensively explain
the transformation of Indian and Malay music cultures in their encounter with colonial power.
• To contribute to resolving the wider historiographical issue of the relationship between indigenous and European knowledge systems in the transition to colonialism.
• To reawaken ethnomusicology to the advantages of comparative research between interconnected regions.
• To add a new dimension to the emerging history of the Indian Ocean after 1750.
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ActivitiesMonths 0-24
• Appoint post-docs & admin asst (0-6); PhD students (13)
• Bulk of data collection from Europe, India, Malay world
• Bulk of visiting fellow research visits
• First-draft translations of major sources
• Year 1 team meeting• Year 2 mid-point conference• External conference papers• PI coordination & reporting
Months 25-48• Collection of outstanding
data and pics for publication• Bulk of analysis of archival
and audio/visual data• Preparation of major
deliverables for publication• Year 3 team meeting• Year 4 final public
conference• External conference papers• PI coordination & reporting
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DeliverablesMonths 0-24
• Methodological article based on Year 1 research (PI, PDs)
• Review article based on Year 2 conference (PI, PDs)
• MCS article (VF)• Set up and populate
bibliographical database of 18C & 19C Indian & Malay sources (AA)
• Internal meeting reports & ERC annual reports (PI/AA)
Months 25-48• Continue and complete
database• 2 PhD theses (submit 48)• 3 books, 1 per case study(PI,
PDs, VFs) (draft MSS 42-45)• IMCS article (PI)• Edited volume/journal issue
based on Year 4 conference (Team) (draft MS 48)
• Internal meeting reports & ERC annual reports (PI/AA)