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Music in colonial Punjab : courtesans, bards, and connoisseurs, 1800-1947
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Title
Music in colonial Punjab : courtesans, bards, and connoisseurs, 1800-1947 / Radha Kapuria.
ISBN
9780191959394
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 385 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).
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Notes
This edition also issued in print: 2023.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).
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Summary
This volume offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), unearthing new evidence to argue for the power of female performers and the primacy of classical music for a region conventionally understood as a centre of folk music alone.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2023
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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