Starting tomorrow, Casa Asia presents every Thursday of February, from 6.30 to 8.30 pm, an online course on Contemporary Musical Currents in Asia.
This course will delve into various musical movements in Asia, linked, most of them, to social and historical issues that have made them emerge. All were or are central to the culture of their respective countries and function, at times, as independent or alternative avenues for pockets of countercultural resistance and, at others, as a means of expression and communication of mass culture.
Places such as Mongolia, Afghanistan, China, Cambodia, Japan and India will be present throughout the course. In the sessions comprising this course, you will get to know the different musical movements through some of their main exponents, delve into their particular histories and listen to their music, while learning about the historical and cultural context in which these bands emerged.
The course programme is divided into 7 sessions: 1) Afghanistan: from Radio Kabul to feminist rap and the Taliban ban; 2) Japan, the Shibuya kei; 3) Cambodia: the sweet and tragic dream of Khmer rock; 4) South Korea, the great rise of K-pop; 5) Mongolia: folk metal; 6) China, the underground indie movement, between punk and electronica; and 7) India, the India-fusion generation. The price of the course is 105 euros.
The filmmaker and freelance photographer specialising in oriental cultures, David Gómez Rollán, will be the teacher in charge of the course. With a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Art History and a Masters in East Asian Studies from the University of Salamanca, as a filmmaker, Gómez Rollán is the director of several documentaries, several of them filmed in Asia, including Shaman, filmed in Mongolia, awarded at festivals around the world and premiered on television in over 30 countries, and Mei Ming Generation, about adoption in China and adolescence, premiered internationally and broadcast on TVE’s Documentos TV on TVE’s channel 2. Registrations to attend the course are open at this link.
