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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 * 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 * 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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