ASAM is glad to announce that the course Sonic Reverberations of South/Asian America taught by Stephanie Lou George will be back in the Spring.
This course explores how music contests and claims dominant conceptions of Asian America. Related topics to be covered are Afro- and Caribbean-Asian sonic solidarities, AAPI protest music, and transnational Asian popular music.
Stephanie Lou George specializes in the study of music and sound and their significance in racial formations and diasporic identities. In her research, she specifically examines how devotees of Indo-Caribbean Hindu goddess worship/ “Madrasi Religion” in Guyana and the U.S. seek forms of belonging to South Asian American diaspora culture through musical performance. She has conducted multi-sited research in New York City, Guyana, and Trinidad, as well as virtual ethnography. In 2016-2017, George was a Dissertation Fellow for the Committee for the Study of Religion at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She received her training in ethnomusicology at the Graduate Center, CUNY where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate, as well as Bowling Green State University where she analyzed the globalization of South Asian popular music. Her publications include chapters and reviews in Indo-Caribbean Caribbean Feminist Thought, New West Indian Guide, Civilizations, and the Cambridge Companion to Asian American Music (forthcoming). She has taught courses in Asian American music, Caribbean music, African American music, and anthropology at City College, Hunter College, John Jay, and York College, CUNY, and the University of Pennsylvania.