Tekla Babyak holds a PhD in Musicology from Cornell University.
Based in Davis, CA, she is an independent scholar and disability
activist with multiple sclerosis (MS). Her research focuses on
analysis and aesthetics in European musical Romanticism. Recent
publications have appeared in 19th-Century
Music and Joseph Joachim: Identities/Identitäten.
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.
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 her first non-fiction academic book: Cuban
Fusion: the Transnational Cuban Alternative Music
Scene, on Cuban music and transnationalism.
