Tamil folk music as Dalit liberation theology / Zoe C. Sherinian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherinian, Zoe C.

Series:

Ethnomusicology Multimedia

Ethnomusicology multimedia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--India--Tamil Nadu.

Church music.

Folk music--India--Tamil Nadu--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk music--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Dalits--Religious life--India--Tamil Nadu.

Dalits.

Dalits--India--Tamil Nadu--Music--History and criticism.

Appavoo, James Theophilus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who drew on Tamil folk music to create a distinctive form of indigenized Christian music. Appavoo composed songs and liturgy infused with messages linking Christian theology with critiques of social inequality. Sherinian traces the history of Christian music in India and introduces us to a community of

Contents:

Introduction : context and concepts : singing the Lord's prayer as freedom in a Tamil land

How can the subaltern speak? Musical style, value, and the historical process of

(Re)indigenization of Tamil Christian music

Sharing the meal : a Dalit family's dialogue with the history of Tamil Christian music, 1850-1994

Paraṭṭai's theology : greeting God in the cēri

Ethnography as transformative musical dialogue

Reception and transformation from seminary to village

Performing global Dalit consciousness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253005854

025300585X

OCLC:

870670907