Hear Me Out: A New Indian-American Identity Through Music

03/02/2021 12 min
Hear Me Out: A New Indian-American Identity Through Music

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Episode Synopsis

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Shivram Viswanathan studies economics, political science and spiritual music from different cultures. He is currently in South Korea on a fellowship, but is usually a resident of Harlem. His story is about musicians in America that perform South Indian classical music, called Carnatic music, and how they navigate their different identities through this art.