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SUMMARY:Singing the Nation:  Baul Traditions\, Rabindrasangeet\, and Rabin
 dranath Tagore’s Oxford Lectures
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the relationship between the Baul-Fakir 
 traditions of Bengal and the musical thought of Nobel Laureate and polymat
 h Rabindranath Tagore\, examining how vernacular music shaped his understa
 nding of spiritual syncretism\, cultural identity\, and musical nationalis
 m. Focusing on the Swadeshi movement of 1905\, it considers how Tagore str
 ategically drew upon Baul and other Bengali folk idioms in the composition
  of his Swadeshi songs (1905)\, transforming familiar musical forms into v
 ehicles for anti-colonial mobilisation and collective participation. The l
 ecture further examines how Tagore developed these encounters into a broad
 er philosophy of universal humanism in his Hibbert Lectures\, delivered at
  Harris Manchester College\, Oxford in 1930 and later published as The Rel
 igion of Man (1931). Through musical examples and live performances of sel
 ected Baul/Fakir songs alongside Tagore’s adaptations\, the lecture trac
 es the enduring dialogue between folk traditions and Rabindrasangeet\, dem
 onstrating how musical borrowing\, translation\, and reinterpretation beca
 me central to Tagore’s artistic and political imagination.\n\nSahana Baj
 paie is an internationally acclaimed\, award-winning independent performan
 ce artist and practice-led researcher specialising in Rabindrasangeet and 
 Bengali folk music. She holds an AHRC-funded PhD from King’s College Lon
 don\, titled\, ‘Politics of Performance in Rabindrasangeet’. She is Se
 nior Teaching Fellow in Bengali and South Asian Studies at SOAS University
  of London and currently a Leverhulme (ECR) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sch
 ool of Music\, University of Leeds. Her work bridges music\, politics\, cu
 lture\, sonic ecologies\, South Asian music aesthetics and public performa
 nce across South Asia and its diasporas.
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LOCATION:St Antony's College - Pavilion Room\, Pavilion Room St Antony's C
 ollege 62 Woodstock Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6JF United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Sahana Bajpaie (SOAS University of London)
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