Radha Kapuria

Music in Colonial Punjab

Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947

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Produktbeschreibung

This book 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867346
• ISBN-10: 0192867342
• Artikelnr.: 67865508

Autorenporträt

Radha Kapuria is Assistant Professor in South Asian History at Durham University. This book draws on her PhD work at King's College London, which was nominated for the 2019 Bayly Prize. Her work straddles history, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and gender studies. As well as interest in the Partition, she is currently also a co-editor and collaborator on projects exploring the intersections of regional, sonic, and environmental histories of South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Acknowledgements
* Note on Translation and Transliteration
* Prologue
* Introduction
* 1: Of Musicians, Dancers, and the Maharaja: Gender, Power, and Affect
in Ranjit Singh's Lahore
* 2: Mirasis, Missionaries, and Memsahibs: Folklore and Music in
Colonial Punjab
* 3: Gender, Reform, and Punjab's Musical Publics: Colonial Lahore,
Amritsar, and Jalandhar, 1870s-1930s
* 4: Princely Patronage and Musicians: Modernity and Circulation in
Colonial Patiala and Kapurthala
* Conclusion
* Bibliography