The soundtrack to the film Dil Chahta
Hai (2001) was arguably the first hit soundtrack in
Bollywood created by a rock band. In this presentation, Prof.
Beaster-Jones illustrates how the collaborative approach for this
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy soundtrack generated momentum for a new kind
of Indian film song.
He highlights the changing tastes of India’s urban youth
audiences in the twenty-first century and shows how Dil
Chahta Hai paved the way for the rock and EDM-oriented
compositions of Hindi-language cinema that came to dominate the
first decades of the 21st century. This influence, he argues,
makes Dil Chahta Hai among the most
influential soundtracks in Indian cinematic history.
Joseph Straus has argued that musicology and theory often focus
on so-called “normal” listeners. As a disabled woman who has
multiple sclerosis, I aim to subvert these ableist erasures. As
such, I offer an autoethnography of what I call my neuroqueer
experience of music: I am sexually attracted to (long-dead)
composers such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Dvořák.
An educator with 14 years of experience, Afro-Cuban female
author Eva Silot is an interdisciplinary and
independent scholar, former diplomat and international negotiator
in the United Nations, representing Cuba and developing
countries. The focus of her presentation is her recently
published non-fiction academic book: Cuban
Fusion: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music
Scene, on Cuban music and transnationalism.
