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Communities of sound : religion, displacement and caste in the Bay of Bengal / Carola E. Lorea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorea, Carola Erika, 1987- Author.
- Series:
- Music / Culture Series.
- Music / Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matuẏā (Sect)--Music--History and criticism.
- Matuẏā (Sect).
- Folk music--India--West Bengal--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Folk music--India--Andaman Islands--History and criticism.
- Music and folklore.
- Music and identity politics.
- Music--Social aspects--India--West Bengal.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects--India--Andaman Islands.
- Indian Ocean Region--Emigration and immigration.
- Indian Ocean Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- Religion, displacement and caste in the Bay of Bengal
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2026]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Companion Website
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- Islandness: a Bay of Bengal Perspective
- Sounds of Communities
- Communities of Sound
- Why Interdisciplinarity? Desecularizing Displacement
- Why Interdisciplinarity? Sounding Migration, Sensing Caste
- On Positionality, Islamophobia, and Spiritual Kinship
- Part I Adhibas A Welcoming Reception
- One Matua Identity in Time, Space, and Practice
- Chandala, Haribbola, Matua
- Namashudra Movement and Matua Religion, 1812-1947
- Post-Partition Displacement, Dispersal, and Rehabilitation
- Displacement and the Matua Network
- Three Regions, One Archipelago
- Two Islands of Faith The Making of Religion in the Context of Displacement
- Audible Scriptures and Intersections of Text and Sound
- Matua (HI) Storytelling and the Dalit Renaissance
- Are Matuas Hindu?
- Islamophobic Politics and an Offering of Beef
- Reassembling the Broken Pieces: a Coconut Necklace and a Wooden Staff
- Matapitatattva: The Doctrine of the Mother and the Father
- Avataras of Justice: Subverting Familiar Genealogies of Incarnations
- Australian Baptist Missionary Converts to Matua Faith: Stories of Vicinity and Distinction from Christianity
- A Pious Crocodile: Othering Vaishnavism, Legitimizing Islands of Faith
- Stories and Community
- Part II Mahotsab A Sonic Feast
- Three Sonic Practices Poetics and Politics of Displaced Religious Sounds
- Histories and Ethnographies of Kirtan
- Matua Style of Kirtan
- Conductors of Feeling: Kirtaniyas of the Matua Community
- Making Community: a Sensory Framework
- Danka
- Matam
- Acoustic Virility, Liberation Feminized: the Gender of Kirtan
- Four Instantiations of Communities of Sound.
- Sonic Soteriology, Ensounded Samādhi
- Sonic Shield
- Sonic Flag
- Sonic Vaccine
- Loud and Hot: Aesthetics of Sacred Sound
- Hugging and Mutual Touch: Displays of Touchability
- Five Sonic Epistemologies
- Sounds Like Othering
- Sound, Folklore, or Unnecessary Noise
- Islands of Sound: Tradition and Change
- Islands of Sound: Congregation and Separation
- Thinking with Communities of Sound
- Part III Min Mahotsab a Farewell
- Six Embodied Territory Tidalectics of Mud and Water
- Rolling in the Mud
- Displacement, Emplacement, and Embodied Religion
- Affective Reterritorialization: Moving with Soil and Water
- Mother and Land: the Gender of Substances
- Caste and the Politics of Religious Place-making
- Amphibious Narratives: Denaturalizing Body and Space
- Aquatic Goddesses and Migrant Rituals of Return
- Transnational Religious Tidalectics
- Place-avataras and Sonic Returns
- Sounding the Body-land
- Sonic Avataras
- Tasting the Body-place
- Rethinking Religious Place-making from Islandness
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Music / Culture
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lorea, Carola Erika, 1987- Communities of sound
- ISBN:
- 9780819502254
- 0819502251
- 9780819502285
- 0819502286
- Publisher Number:
- 40033174499
- CIPO000339054
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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