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 followerd by a discussion

Part of a continuing applied ethnomusicology project,this film explores the sacred the sacred music, dance and rituals of the devidasis and devidasas, woman and man dedicated to the goddess Renuka/yellamma of the Deccan. Narrated in the fictive viose of the Goddness and her son,Parasurama

(Collaboration: Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of indian Studies)