The voice in the drum : music, language, and emotion in Islamicate South Asia / Richard K. Wolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Richard K., 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic music--South Asia--History and criticism.

Islamic music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts. Richard K. Wolf employs a hybrid, novelistic form of presentation in which the fictional protagonist Muharram Ali, a man obsessed with finding music he believes will dissolve religious and political barriers, interacts with Wolf's field consultants, to communicate ethnographic and historical realities that transcend the local details of any one person's life.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copypright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""An Essential Note from the Author""; ""Note from the Editor""; ""Note on Transcription and Musical Symbols""; ""Map""; ""Chapter 1. Drumming, Language, and the Voice in South Asia""; ""Chapter 2. Emotional Agents""; ""Chapter 3. Tone and Stroke""; ""Chapter 4. Beyond the Matra""; ""Chapter 5. Muharram in Multan""; ""Chapter 6. Shah Jamal""; ""Chapter 7. Madho Lal""; ""Chapter 8. The Manifest and the Hidden""; ""Chapter 9. The Voice in the Drum""; ""Chapter 10. A Silver Box""; ""Appendix A Dhima and Matam""

""Appendix B Summary of Commemorative Themes""""Appendix C Cast of Characters by Chapter""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-09650-9

OCLC:

894227410