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Ways of voice : vocal striving and moral contestation in North India and beyond / Matthew Rahaim.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML2551.I5 R353 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rahaim, Matthew, author.
- Series:
- Music/culture
- Music / culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singing--India, North.
- Singing.
- Vocal music--India, North--Analysis, appreciation.
- Vocal music.
- Vocal music--Analysis, appreciation.
- North India.
- Genre:
- Vocal music.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Ethnomusicological study of techniques of voice production in North India, examining the ways in which singers not only "have" voice but actively acquire, cultivate, and contest particular vocal dispositions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: One. Introduction
- Voice Culture(s)
- Ways of Voice
- The Hindustani Vocal Ecumene
- Voices and Selves
- Ethical Traditions
- An Ethics of Disposition and Relationality
- Gender and Vocal Subject Position
- Speaking of Voice
- Chapter Summaries
- Two. Gayaki: Vocal Dispositions
- Kinetic Dispositions
- Kinetic Ethics
- Ornamental Movement (Harkat)
- Moving Heavy and Light
- Tans
- Moving Simply
- Sonorous Dispositions
- Sur
- Bodily Sonorities
- Range
- Openness, Loftiness, Power
- Sweetness
- Three. Vocal Relationality
- Practices of Listening
- Circuits of Voice
- Vocal Impact: Tasir
- Ras and the Rasika
- Mahfil Relationality
- Temporal Attunement and Empathetic Listening
- Discerning Svara
- Sama
- Participatory Devotional Song
- Irrelational Practices
- A Voice Unpolluted by Human Ears
- Microphones, Stages, and the Aesthetic Attitude
- Self as Listener
- Four. Kiski Avaz? Vocal Formation and Contestation
- Gharana Gayaki: Crystallizations of Lineage
- "A Calm That Spreads": The Life of Amir Khan's Gayaki
- Filmi Voice and Its Discontents
- Contested Femininities
- Post-Filmi Individualist Voices
- Western-Voice
- Contested Sufi Voices
- Five. Sadhana: Vocal Striving
- Striving after Another Voice: The Riyaz-Talim Complex
- Immersion, Distancing, and Recorded Vocal Objects
- Scientific Voice Culture and Other Vocal Authorities
- Filmi Voice and Mic-Fitting
- Making Western-Voice
- Devotion, Gifts, and Crises
- Six. Ways Beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rahaim, Matthew. Ways of voice
- ISBN:
- 9780819579393
- 0819579394
- 9780819579386
- 0819579386
- OCLC:
- 1240412739
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