The Musical Gift tells Sri Lankan music history as a story of exchange between humans and nonhumans, and between human communities defined by difference. Sykes argues that histories of sonic generosity have a role to play in fostering reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka.
The Musical Gift tells Sri Lankan music history as a story of exchange between humans and nonhumans, and between human communities defined by difference. Sykes argues that histories of sonic generosity have a role to play in fostering reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka.
Jim Sykes is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in sound and music studies, religious studies, labor history/capitalism, and conflict studies, focusing to date on Sri Lanka and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Remapping Sound Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). He is also a drummer who has recorded and toured widely with numerous experimental and indie rock groups.
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* Preface and Acknowledgements * Note on Transliteration * Supplementary Materials * Part One: Finding Musical Gifts * Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation * Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies * Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction * Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts * Chapter Two: Berav¿ Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts * Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction * Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money * Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving * Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War * Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six Languages * Checkpoint: Sound as Commodity (Identity) versus Sound as Gift (Identity + Relations) * Chapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas * Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving * Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures * Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka * References
* Preface and Acknowledgements * Note on Transliteration * Supplementary Materials * Part One: Finding Musical Gifts * Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation * Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies * Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction * Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts * Chapter Two: Berav¿ Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts * Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction * Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money * Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving * Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War * Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six Languages * Checkpoint: Sound as Commodity (Identity) versus Sound as Gift (Identity + Relations) * Chapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas * Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving * Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures * Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka * References
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