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Theorizing the local : music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond / edited by Richard K. Wolf.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--South Asia--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Theorizing the Local' rethinks South Asian music in light of diverse regional practices. Using comparative microstudies to cross the traditional borders of scholarship on Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Iran, the book provides new footing for South Asia in the study of today's musical world.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Richard K. Wolf
- Bodies and instruments. Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton
- Spaces and itineraries. Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory D. Booth ; The princess of the musicians : Rani Bhatiyani and the manganiars of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri ; Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner
- Learning and transmission. Disciple and preceptor/performer in Kerala / Rolf Groesbeck ; Sina ba sina or "from father to son" : writing the culture of discipleship / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi ; Handmade in Nepal / David Henderson
- Theorizing social action. Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum ; Zahirok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan ; Varnams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045023-1
- 1-282-33555-3
- 0-19-971600-5
- 9786612335556
- 0-19-533138-9
- OCLC:
- 503605494
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