Niranjana Tejaswini Niranjana

Musicophilia in Mumbai (eBook, PDF)

Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious

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Produktbeschreibung

In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers as well as her own personal experiences as a student of Hindustani classical music, Niranjana shows how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening that brought together people of diverse social and linguistic backgrounds. This culture produced modern subjects Niranjana calls musicophiliacs, whose subjectivity was grounded in a social rather than an individualistic context. By attending concerts, learning instruments, and performing at home and in various urban environments, musicophiliacs embodied forms of modernity that were distinct from those found in the West. In tracing the relationship between musical practices and the formation of the social subject, Niranjana opens up new ways to think about urbanity, subjectivity, culture, and multiple modernities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478009191
• Artikelnr.: 66282370

Autorenporträt

Tejaswini Niranjana is Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and author of Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad, also published by Duke University Press, and Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. On Not Being Able to Learn Music  1
1. "Yaa Nagari Mein Lakh Darwaza": Musicophilia and the Lingua Musica in
Mumbai  19
2. Mehfil (Performance): The Spaces of Music  46
3. Deewaana (The Mad One): The Lover of Music  86
4. Taleem: Pedagogy and the Performing Subject  128
5. Nearness as Distance, or Distance as Nearness  162
Afterword  181
Glossary  199
Notes  205
Selected Bibliography  227
Index  235