Sensational Rhythms of the Ineffable : Ethical Affects in Sikh Sabad Kīrtan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaur, Inderjit N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikh music--History and criticism.

Sikh music.

Kirtana (Sikhism).

Rhythm--Religious aspects--Sikhism.

Rhythm.

Sikhism--Customs and practices.

Sikhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The first study of Sikh devotional experience to combine new insights from scriptural songs with in-depth musical analyses of all three major styles of Sabad Kirtan, Sensational Rhythms of the Ineffable offers unique perspectives on both Sikh Kirtan and Sikh philosophy. Building on the Sikh metaphysics of Anhad Nad--the common ineffable vibration of all existence--Inderjit N. Kaur explores intimate collaborations between rhythms of music, body, and lived life, to illuminate how Sikh musical worship functions as a site of ethical sensations and a practice of the embodiment of a relational oneness-a foundational ethical principle in Sikh philosophy and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction. Decolonial Framing, Participant Sensation, and Translation

Part I. Sikh Wisdom, Lived Rhythm, and Sabad Kīrtan. Sabad Kīrtan and its Intersensorial Ecology of Rhythms ; Gurmat : The Philosophical Foundation of Embodied Interrelationality in Sabad Kīrtan ; Theory in Song: Anhad Nād and a Tripartite Sikh Model of Lived Rhythm

Part II. Musical Rhythms and Ethical Affects in Diverse Styles of Sabad Kīrtan. Flowing Flexible Rhythms : Time Vistas of Awe in "Light-Style" Sabad Kīrtan ; Cyclical Granular Rhythms : Shapely Timbres, Shapely Affects, in "AKJ-Style" (Akhand Kīrtani Jattha) Sabad Kīrtan ; Recurring Gravitational Rhythms : Embodiment in the Time of Aura in "Classical-Style" Sabad Kīrtan

Part III. Concluding Thoughts : In the Realm of Unboundedness. The Work of Rhythm in Music and Beyond : Sensationalizing Ineffabilities and the Ethics of Interconnectedness

Appendix A. The Place of Rāg in Sikh Scripture and Kīrtan Practice

Appendix B. Interpreting "Ghar" in Scriptural Song Titles.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-753902-5

0-19-753900-9

9780197539002

OCLC:

1559920712