Rabindranath Tagore and music in the age of nationalism / Saurav Dasthakkur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasthakur, Saurav, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Tagore, Rabindranath.

Music--India--Bengal--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--India--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Rabindranath Tagore and Music in the Age of Nationalism explores the political, social, cultural, and emotional history of Bengal, focusing on the development of modern Bengali subjectivity. The unifying theme is Rabindranath Tagore's creative and critical progress, highlighting his influence on modern Bengali culture and Indian music. The book employs modern critical theory and musicological methodologies to examine the interaction of music with significant developments in Bengali, Indian, and European life during colonial modernity and anti-colonial nationalism. It investigates Tagore's music and musicology through intertextual engagement with his other arts and activism, various music traditions, and the works of his contemporaries. The study traces the evolution of Tagore's music towards a personal secular religion and explores its implications for his pluralist nationalism, rural reconstruction, cooperative movement, and alternative pedagogy. It critiques the mechanical ethics of nationalist biopolitics, suggesting Tagore's music contributes to an alternative Indian modernity.

Contents:

Introduction: Tagore in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: in and out of tradition

Music in colonial Bengal: Tagore in music and musicology

Music, morality, class, gender, and the nation: Tagore’s response

Nationalism, ways of seeing, and music: work, nature, and Tagore

New Man, New Woman, and the religion of love: Tagore and music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed April 8, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Dasthakur, Saurav, 1978- Rabindranath Tagore and music in the age of nationalism.

ISBN:

9780198978909

9780198978916

019897891X

0198978901

OCLC:

1570614425

Access Restriction:

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