{"id":602,"date":"2006-03-01T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?p=602"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:33:19","slug":"korom-grabs-guggenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/2006\/03\/01\/korom-grabs-guggenheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Korom Grabs Guggenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/images\/korom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/frank-j-korom\/\">Frank Korom<\/a> received a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship that will help him complete <em>Singing Modernity<\/em>, a book about how performers of the Indian state of West Bengal have adapted the application of the ancient art form of singing a narrative ballad while a painted version of the story is unrolled frame by frame to modern audiences, themes, and economics. Korom, a former curator for the museum and a current Professor of Religion and Anthropology, is creating a catalogue for the exhibition. He has written several books, including <em>South Asian Folklore<\/em>, due out in April, and hopes to complete his book on the scroll painters by next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Frank Korom received a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship that will help him complete Singing Modernity, a book about how performers of the Indian state of West Bengal have adapted the application of the ancient art form of singing a narrative ballad while a painted version of the story is unrolled frame by frame to modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10315,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/10315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}