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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.
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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
Musical Transitions to Colonialism Penang Melaka Singapore
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.
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
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.
Research Team Principal Investigator Administrative 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
Budget Overall: €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
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
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.
Activities • 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 Months 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
Deliverables • 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) Months 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)