Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India

Herausgeber: Niranjana, Tejaswini

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that focus on the role of music in the formation of a public in India across the twentieth century, Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India critically analyzes the connections between music and the creation of new ideas of publicness in India, covering classical, folk and popular music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190121129
• ISBN-10: 0190121122
• Artikelnr.: 58456859

Autorenporträt

Tejaswini Niranjana is Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She was formerly at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, which she co-founded. Among her books are SITING TRANSLATION: HISTORY, POST-STRUCTURALISM AND THE COLONIAL CONTEXT (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1992), and MOBILIZING INDIA: WOMEN, MUSIC, AND MIGRATION BETWEEN INDIA AND TRINIDAD(Durham: Duke UP, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Thomas Christensen
* Introduction by Tejaswini Niranjana
* Part I: Music and Modernity
* 1. Musical Publics in Twentieth-Century Madras: Competing Narratives
of Sonic Sociability by Lakshmi Subramanian
* 2. The Ustads from the North, the Public Sphere, and the
Classicization of Music in Late Nineteenth-Century Calcutta by Adrian
McNeil
* 3. Hindustani Music and the Emergence of a Lingua Musica in Mumbai by
Tejaswini Niranjana
* Part II: New Musical Publics and the Formation of Taste
* 4. Govind Sadashiv Tembe and the Education of Taste in Maharashtra by
Urmila Bhirdikar
* 5. Artists in the Open: Indian Classical Musicians in the
Mid-Twentieth Century by Amlan Das Gupta
* Part III: Inter-medial Publics
* 6. Seeing Print, Hearing Song: Tracking the Film Song Through the
Hindi Popular Print Sphere, c. 1955-75 by Vebhuti Duggal
* 7. Rewind and Play: Nineties Romantic Music in the Cinematic Public
Sphere by Abhija Ghosh
* 8. The Public Sphere of Marketed Sound: The Business of Early
Recorded Music in India by Vibodh Parthasarathi
* Part IV: Music and Popular Politics
* 9. Singing in the Fray: Radical Publics and Popular Entertainment in
South India by Kaley Mason
* 10. Vernacular Music Traditions and Their Publics: The Political
Dimensions of Sounds and Technologies by Aditi Deo
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Editor and Contributors