Music and dance as everyday South Asia / edited by Sarah L. Morelli and Zoe C. Sherinian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morelli, Sarah, editor.

Sherinian, Zoe C., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects--South Asia.

Music.

Music--South Asia--History and criticism.

Dance--Social aspects--South Asia.

Dance.

Dance--South Asia--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This work offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music and dance of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. Each chapter's central argument ties into a participatory exercise that provides active ways to understand and engage with cultural meaning.

Contents:

Cover

Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

About the Companion Website

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Comprehensive Approaches to South Asian Sound and Movement

Section I: Identity in Place and Community

1. A Sense of the City: Embodied Practice and Popular Music in Mumbai

2. A Melody of Lucknow: Hearing History in North Indian Music

3. Sufi Devotional Performances in Multan, Pakistan, a "City of Saints"

4. Hale da Divan: Trance, Historical Consciousness, and the Ecstasy of Separation in Namdhari Sikh Services

5. "Small Voices Sing Big Songs": Music as Development in the Thar Desert

Section II: Performance Dynamics: Style, Genre, Coding, and Function

6. Changing Musical Style and Social Identity in Tamil Christian Kirttanai

7. Professional Weeping: Music, Affect, and Hierarchy in a South Indian Folk Performance Art

8. Sindhi Kafi and Vernacular Islam in Western India

9. Music, Religious Experience, and Nationalism in Marathi Rashtriya Kirtan

10. Prestige, Status, and the History of Instrumental Music in North India

Section III: Intersectional Dynamics: Caste, Class, and Tribe

11. Mundari Performance after the Revolution: Did Dance Save the Tribe?

12. Systematic and Embodied Music Theory of Tamil Parai Drummers

13. Caste, Class, Aesthetics, and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam Dance

14. Sacred Song, Food, and the Affective Embodied Experience of Non-​Othering in the Sikh Tradition

15. Following in the Footsteps of Muria Music and Dance

Section IV: Identity in Gender and Sexuality

16. Bhangra Brotherhood: Gender, Music, and Nationalism in Rang De Basanti

17. Disrupted Divas: Conflicting Pathways of India's Socially Marginalized Female Entertainers.

18. "All the Parts of Who I Am": Multi-​Gendered Performance in Kathak Dance

19. Music and the Trans-​thirunangai Everyday at Koovagam, Tamil Nadu

20. Performing Youthful Desires: Bihu Festival Music and Dance in Assam, India

Section V: Technology, Media, and Transmission

21. "We Know What Our Folk Culture Is from Commercial Videos": Rethinking the Popular-​Folk Dynamic in the Indian Himalayas

22. The Female Voice in Hindi Cinema: Agency, Representation, and Change

23. Love, Politics, and Life between Village and City in Nepali Lok Dohori: One Album, Three Titles

24. Pedagogy and Embodiment in the Transmission of Kerala Temple Drumming

25. Sonic Gift-​Giving in Sri Lankan Buddhism

Section VI: Diaspora and Globalization

26. Contemporizing Kandyan Dance

27. Desi Dance Music: A Transnational Phenomenon

28. Dance In The Round: Embodying Inclusivity and Interdependence through Garba

29. Tamil Rap and Social Status in Malaysia

30. Beyond the Silver Screen: Filmi Aesthetics in Bollywood Fitness Classes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780197566268

019756626X

9780197566244

0197566243

OCLC:

1443643232