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Siren song : understanding Pakistan through its women singers / Fawzia Afzal-Khan.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML82 .A39 2020
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LIBRA ML82 .A39 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects.
- Women singers.
- Pakistan--Social conditions.
- Pakistan.
- Social conditions.
- Women singers--Pakistan.
- Music--Social aspects--Pakistan.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 211 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Understanding Pakistan through its women singers
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Methodological framing and background information
- The respectable courtesan : reading Malka Pukhraj's postcolonial performative memoir, Song sung true : introducing the respectable courtesan
- Roshan Ara Begum : performing classical music, gender, and Muslim nationalism in Pakistan
- Feminist mediations : the sacred and the secular in three Pakistani female singers' oeuvre
- Reshma and folk music : inventing a tradition
- Border transgressors : from popular war songs to disco-pop, 1960-1980s
- Unsettling the nation : Coke Studio and the new divas of Sufi-pop in contemporary Pakistan
- Epilogue: In media res
- Appendices: Suraiya Multanikar ; Tahira Syed ; Tina Sani ; Hadiqa Kiani ; Aliya Rasheed
- Singing past silence: A personal coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190700546
- 0190700548
- OCLC:
- 1175243920
- Publisher Number:
- 99986908936
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