{"id":207808,"date":"2020-03-13T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=207808"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:42:07","slug":"siren-song-an-ode-to-pakistans-great-female-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2020\/03\/13\/siren-song-an-ode-to-pakistans-great-female-singers\/","title":{"rendered":"Siren Song: An Ode to Pakistan&#8217;s Great Female Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=khanf\">Fawzia Afzal-Khan<\/a>, professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/\">Department of English<\/a>, launched her latest book, <em>Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women Singers<\/em>, at the Pakistan National Council of Arts in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youlinmagazine.com\/article\/siren-song-an-ode-to-pakistan-great-female-singers\/MTY5MA==\">reviewed by <em>Youlin Magazine,<\/em><\/a> featured a screening of a short documentary of singers, activists and family members as they trace the history of female singers in Pakistan through its tumultuous history. The screening was followed by a talk and Q&amp;A with Afzal-Khan in which she\u00a0explained her journey of collecting and compiling the singers&#8217; stories of subversion and femininity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fawzia Afzal-Khan, professor in the Department of English, launched her latest book, Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women Singers, at the Pakistan National Council of Arts in Islamabad. The event, reviewed by Youlin Magazine, featured a screening of a short documentary of singers, activists and family members as they trace the history of female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207810,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207808\/revisions\/207810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}