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The musical gift : sonic generosity in post-war Sri Lanka / Jim Sykes.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3917.S75 S94 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sykes, Jim, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Critical conjunctures in music & sound
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects--Sri Lanka.
- Music.
- Music--Sri Lanka--History and criticism.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Sri Lanka.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Part I Finding Musical Gifts
- 1 Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies p. 15
- Part II Musical Giving As Protection And Destruction
- Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts p. 63
- 2 Berava Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts p. 69
- 3 Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction p. 97
- 4 The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money p. 119
- Part III The Discursive Erasure Of Musical Giving
- 5 Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War p. 165
- Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six Languages p. 195
- Checkpoint: Sound as Commodity (Identity) versus Sound as Gift: (Identity + Relations) p. 208
- 6 The Island Space: Musk, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas p. 210
- Part IV Rediscovering Musical Giving
- Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures p. 229
- Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka p. 236.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190912024
- 0190912022
- OCLC:
- 1025366113
- Publisher Number:
- 99977981777
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