Music for A Goddess: Dalit Devidasis of the Deccan

(72 min; 2007; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Directors: Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Jairazbhoy

The film will be introduced by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Part of a continuing applied ethnomusicology project, this film explores the sacred music, dance and rituals of the devidasis and devidasas, women and men dedicated to the goddess Renuka/Yellamma of the Deccan. Narrated in the fictive voice of the Goddess and her son, Parasurama