6AAMS366-Music and Empire

This paper is part of an examination of the College counting towards the award of a degree. Examinations are governed by the College Regulations under the authority of the Academic Board.

BMUS EXAMINATION

6AAMS366

Music and Empire

Examination Period 2 (MAY 2022)

TIME ALLOWED: 24 Hours

Submission deadline: 11TH MAY, BEFORE 12.00 NOON UK TIME.

You should write not more than 1,500 words in total for the whole exam.

Work to be submitted electronically, via KEATS, with your CANDIDATE NUMBER and MODULE CODE as the submission title.

DO NOT SIGNIFICANTLY REPEAT MATERIAL FROM YOUR COURSEWORK, AND BE CAREFUL NOT TO PLAGIARISE YOUR VIDEO LECTURES.

ANSWER ONE QUESTION. The Objects are available on KEATS under the Assignment Submission tab.

1. Object: Debussy’s ‘Pagodes’ from Estampes.

Do EITHER a close reading OR a contrapuntal reading (Kofi Agawu) of this piece as a work of Orientalism.

2. Object: Painting from the independent princely state of Jaipur, c. 1880.

Discuss how this painting demonstrates the concept of the paracolonial in relation to India.

3. Object: Clip of the last known recording of a South Indian temple devadasi from documentary Sex, Death, and the Gods.

Evaluate how and why the position of devadasis changed in South Indian society and its performing arts under British colonial rule.