Theorizing the Local

Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond
Herausgeber: Wolf, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Theorizing the Local rethinks South Asian music in light of diverse regional practices. Using comparative microstudies to cross the traditional borders of scholarship on Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Iran, the book provides new footing for South Asia in the study of today's musical world. As a whole, it privileges "local" over "global" as an analytical concept, serving as a model for future ethnographic study across all regions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780195331387
• ISBN-10: 0195331389
• Artikelnr.: 27086458

Autorenporträt

Richard K. Wolf is Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of the book The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India (Permanent Black, 2005 and University of Illinois Press, 2006), which was awarded the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Humanities, and Reciting Remembrance: Resonances of Popular Islam in South Asia (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Table of Contents
* Note on Transliteration
* List of Maps
* Chapter One: Introduction (Richard K. Wolf)
* Part I: Bodies and Instruments
* Chapter Two: Women and Kandyan dance: Negotiating gender and
tradition in Sri Lanka (Susan A. Reed)
* Chapter Three: Listening to the violin in South Indian classical
music (Amanda Weidman)
* Chapter Four: Local practice, global network: the guitar in India as
a case study (Martin Clayton)
* Part II: Spaces and Itineraries
* Chapter Five: Constructing the local: Migration and cultural
geography in the Indian brass band trade (Gregory Booth)
* Chapter Six: The princess of the musicians: R?ni Bh?ñiy?õi and the
M?ngani?r of Western Rajasthan (Shubha Chaudhuri)
* Chapter Seven: Music in Urban Space: Newar Buddhist processional
music in the Kathmandu Valley (Gert-Matthias Wegner)
* Part III: Learning and Transmission
* Chapter Eight: Disciple And preceptor/performer in Kerala (Rolf
Groesbeck)
* Chapter Nine: S?na ba s?na or "from father to son": Writing the
culture of discipleship (egula Burckhardt Qureshi)
* Chapter Ten: Handmade in Nepal (David Henderson)
* Part IV: Theorizing Social Action
* Chapter Eleven: Modes of theorizing in Iranian Khorasan (Stephen
Blum)
* Chapter Twelve: Zahirok: The musical base of Baloch minstrelsy (Sabir
Badalkhan)
* Chapter Thirteen: Varõams and vocalizations: The special status of
some musical beginnings (Richard K. Wolf)
* Glossary
* Bibliography