{"id":323,"date":"2019-12-30T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2019-12-30T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:28:26","slug":"dr-katherine-butler-schofield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/dr-katherine-butler-schofield\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Katherine Butler Schofield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr Katherine Schofield is Senior Lecturer in South Asian Music and History. She is a historian of music and listening in Mughal India and the paracolonial Indian Ocean. She trained as a viola player before embarking on her PhD at SOAS, University of London, and came to King\u2019s after a research fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a lectureship at Leeds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Working largely with Persian, Urdu, and visual sources for elite musical culture in North India and the Deccan c.1570\u20131860, Katherine\u2019s general research interests lie in South Asian music; the history of Mughal India (1526\u20131858); Islam and Sufism; empire and the paracolonial; and the intersecting histories of the emotions, the senses, aesthetics, ethics, and the supernatural. Through stories about ill-fated courtesans, legendary musicians, and captivated patrons she writes on sovereignty and selfhood, affection and desire, sympathy and loss, and power, worldly and strange.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Katherine Schofield is Senior Lecturer in South Asian Music and History. She is a historian of music and listening in Mughal India and the paracolonial Indian Ocean. She trained as a viola player before embarking on her PhD at SOAS, University of London, and came to King\u2019s after a research fellowship at Corpus Christi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/dr-katherine-butler-schofield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Katherine Butler Schofield&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}