Selina Sharma

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Selina Sharma (Thielemann) is an Indian musicologist and singer . Her academic work focuses on South Asia , in particular on the religious music of the Braj cultural region in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh , the Baul singers in Bengal and on the philosophical aspects of music. She is currently the academic director of the "Institute for Vraja Art and Culture" in Vrindavan .

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The native Italian comes from a family of musicians. Selina Sharma was introduced to Indian art , literature and philosophy through her parents from her earliest childhood . Selina Sharma learned to play the violin from her father. After completing her school education and musical training in Germany, she obtained her M.Mus. in ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London , where she also studied Hindi literature, Sanskrit and political science. She obtained her M.Phil. in musicology from the University of Cambridge , and received her PhD from Banaras Hindu University in 1998 with a dissertation on Vaishnava temple music in the Vraja region of northern India. Her dissertation was supervised by the well-known musicologist Prem Lata Sharma, who essentially influenced Selina Sharma's point of view. Another significant figure in Selina Sharma's academic career was the German ethnomusicologist Josef Kuckertz , whose writings she published in English translation under the title Essays in Indian music in 1999 after his death .

In 1994, Selina Sharma first came to India for fieldwork for her Masters thesis at Cambridge University. In Vrindavan she began training as a dhrupad singer with the famous singer Pandit Vidur Mallik. After completing her studies at Cambridge, she returned to Vrindaban in the same year to devote her further work to the endangered traditional arts and musical forms of India, and in particular to the Braj region (from Sanskrit vraja to Mathura and Vrindavan). Together with a group of artists, including her husband, the Sanjhi artist Shashank Goswami, she founded the Vraja Kala Sanskriti Sansthana (also Institute of Vraja Art and Culture , "Institute for Vraja Art and Culture") in 2004 ), an academic institution dedicated to documenting, researching and disseminating the traditional arts of the Braj region.

Between 1996 and 2005 Selina Sharma wrote the majority of her publications, which include eleven books on various topics of Indian music and philosophy as well as a large number of articles. Together with the well-known Baul singer Purna Das Baul, she wrote the first treatise on the Baul philosophy published in English.

Since 2006 Selina Sharma has concentrated her work on the dissemination of the rare and threatened art forms in the Braj region. Together with Shashank Goswami, she holds regular series of lectures and workshops in India and abroad on topics of Indian art and music, including the rehearsal of Indian plays on epic topics with students and the presentation of exhibitions of traditional miniature painting by young artists belong. Selina Sharma has been appearing regularly in Germany since 2006 as part of such series of events.

Selina Sharma has been married to the temple priest and Sanjhi artist Shashank Goswami since 2006. The two artists have two sons, Shri Ram Goswami and Shri Lakshman Goswami. Selina Sharma speaks a variety of languages, including Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali, English, Italian, and German.

Publications

  • The Darbhanga tradition: dhrupada in the school of Pandit Vidur Mallik (Varanasi: Indica Books), 1997, ISBN 81-86569-01-4 .
  • Rasalila. A musical study of religious drama in Vraja (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 1998 ISBN 81-7024-864-7 .
  • Sounds of the Sacred. Religious Music in India (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 1998, ISBN 81-7024-990-2 .
  • The music of South Asia (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 1999, ISBN 81-7648-057-6 .
  • (Edited) Essays on Indian music by Professor Josef Kuckertz (Bombay and Baroda: Indian Musicological Society), 1999.
  • Singing the praises divine: music in the Hindu tradition (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 2000, ISBN 81-7648-165-3 .
  • Musical traditions of Vaishnava temples in Vraja. A comparative study of samaja and the dhrupada tradition of North Indian classical music (2 vols., New Delhi: Sagar Printers and Publishers), 2001, ISBN 81-7123-070-9 .
  • The spirituality of music (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 2001 ISBN 81-7648-249-8 .
  • Divine service and the performing arts in India (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 2002, ISBN 81-7648-333-8 .
  • Samgita-sadhana. The path of human oneness (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 2003, ISBN 81-7648-474-1 .
  • Armonie yoga. Un flusso universal di musica, poesia e filosofia che parla al cuore (Savona: Lakshmi Edizioni), 2012, ISBN 88-9664-211-6 .
  • (with Baul Samrat Purna Das) Baul Philosophy (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 2003, ISBN 81-7648-409-1 .
  • (with Saurabh Goswami) Music and fine arts in the devotional traditions of India. Worship through beauty (New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation), 2005, ISBN 81-7648-811-9 .

Sound recordings

  • Dekho gopala ki avani (Devotional songs from the temples of Vraja), produced by Vraja Kala Sanskriti Sansthana, Vrindaban, 2004
  • Sañjhi Utsava vol. 1 , produced by Vraja Kala Sanskriti Sansthana, Vrindaban, 2005

literature

  • Maanav prem hi vishva Sanskriti , Hindustan, February 18, 2002.
  • Bhakti ka aadhaar prem hai: Thielemann , Aaj, March 20, 2002.
  • Manushya ki puja hi bhagavan ki puja , Dainik Bhaskar, March 19, 2002.
  • Indian Art in Dohna , Saxon Newspaper, 9. – 10. June 2007.
  • Selina Thielemann. London se vrindavan tak , Dainik Bhaskar, July 14, 2002.
  • Regunathan, Sudhamahi. From Berlin to Brindavan , The Hindu, April 10, 2000.
  • Vats, great. Vrindavan ke suron ne Italy lautne nahi diya , Hindustan, December 29, 2002.
  • Ranjan, Prabhat. Bharat apna desh lagta , Jansatta, June 4, 2000.
  • Varadapande, ML If music be the food of life, daal roti it has to be , The Pioneer, November 17, 1996.
  • Ishvar ka asli rup manav hriday me , Nayee Baat, March 19, 2002.
  • Saundaryashaastriya chetna ki aatyaantik abhivyakti thi premlata sharma , Rashtriya Sahara, December 5, 2000.
  • Bharatiya sangit unhe Italy se kinch laya , Navabharat Times, May 29, 2000.
  • Carnatic music and its German links , Madras Heritage and Carnatic music, March 7, 2011.
  • Indian temple painting in Dohna , Dresdner Nachrichten, June 14, 2007.
  • Bharatiya baul gaane jarmani se yahan aayi lekhika Selina , Rashtriya Sahara, November 21, 2002.
  • Enjoy Baul geets today , Baroda Times, December 6, 2002.
  • Artist couple from UP bring Sanchi art to Udupi , Deccan Herald, August 1, 2011.
  • Insights into the life of the Indians , Pirnaer Zeitung, 3. – 4. May 2008.
  • Indian mythology in songs and stories , Sächsische Zeitung, 4th August 2007.
  • The first Indo-German Festival starts in the Johannstadt , Sächsische Zeitung, May 31, 2014.
  • Kalakaron ne banaya mahakumbh , Amar Ujala, March 2, 2003.
  • Indian sounds in Dohna , Saxon newspaper, July 10, 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Sharma, Selina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thielemann, Selina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian musicologist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century