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Theorizing the local : music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond
Title
Theorizing the local : music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond / edited by Richard K. Wolf.
ISBN
9780195331370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0195331370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780195331387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195331389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xiii, 329 p. : ill., maps, music ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Richard K. Wolf
Bodies and instruments. Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton
Spaces and itineraries. Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory D. Booth ; The princess of the musicians : Rāni Bhaṭiyāṇi and the māngaṇiārs of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri ; Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner
Learning and transmission. Disciple and preceptor/performer in Kerala / Rolf Groesbeck ; Sīna ba sīna or "from father to son" : writing the culture of discipleship / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi ; Handmade in Nepal / David Henderson
Theorizing social action. Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum ; Zahīrok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan ; Varṇams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf.
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