What’s American about American Music?

Illustrated presentation by Sharon Lowen

What comes to mind as the music of North America? Rock and Roll, Gershwin, Broadway, Gospel, John Cage, Indigenous, Pueblo, and Inuit tribal music, jazz, swing? How about the folk and popular music in the ethnic style of the Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, Polish, Hispanic, and Jewish communities, among others. The talk presents a kaleidoscopic aural journey and a multi-cultural country’s musical heritage

Chair: Sunit Tandon, well known theatre and film personality, and Director, India Habitat Centre

Sharon Lowen has bridged cultures performing, writing, teaching Odissi, Manipuri, Chhau, Western Ballet and Modern Dance; and cross-cultural education internationally and in India over 50 years and via her NGO, Manasa-Art Without Frontiers