Theorizing the Local (eBook, PDF)

Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond
Redaktion: Wolf, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the past four decades, the "globalized" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions of South Asia have remained relatively unexplored. Theorizing the Local provides a challenging and compelling counterperspective to the ?globalized,? arguing for the value of comparative microstudies that are not concerned primarily with the flow of capital and neoliberal politics. What does it mean for musical activities to be local in an increasingly interconnected world? To what extent can theoretical activity be localized to the very acts of making music, interacting, and composing? Theorizing the Local offers glimpses into rich musical worlds of south and west Asia, worlds which have never before been presented in a single volume. The authors cross the traditional borders of scholarship and region, exploring in unmatched detail a vast array of musical practices and significant ethnographic discoveries-from Nepal to India, India to Sri Lanka, Pakistan to Iran. Enriched by audio and video tracks on an extensive companion Web site, Theorizing the Local is an important study of South Asian musical traditions that offers a broader understanding of 21st-century music of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199716005
• Artikelnr.: 54563561

Autorenporträt

Richard K. Wolf is Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of the book The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India (Permanent Black, 2005 and University of Illinois Press, 2006), which was awarded the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Humanities, and Reciting Remembrance: Resonances of Popular Islam in South Asia (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Table of Contents
* Note on Transliteration
* List of Maps
* Chapter One: Introduction (Richard K. Wolf)
* Part I: Bodies and Instruments
* Chapter Two: Women and Kandyan dance: Negotiating gender and
tradition in Sri Lanka (Susan A. Reed)
* Chapter Three: Listening to the violin in South Indian classical
music (Amanda Weidman)
* Chapter Four: Local practice, global network: the guitar in India as
a case study (Martin Clayton)
* Part II: Spaces and Itineraries
* Chapter Five: Constructing the local: Migration and cultural
geography in the Indian brass band trade (Gregory Booth)
* Chapter Six: The princess of the musicians: R?ni Bh?ñiy?õi and the
M?ngani?r of Western Rajasthan (Shubha Chaudhuri)
* Chapter Seven: Music in Urban Space: Newar Buddhist processional
music in the Kathmandu Valley (Gert-Matthias Wegner)
* Part III: Learning and Transmission
* Chapter Eight: Disciple And preceptor/performer in Kerala (Rolf
Groesbeck)
* Chapter Nine: S?na ba s?na or "from father to son": Writing the
culture of discipleship (egula Burckhardt Qureshi)
* Chapter Ten: Handmade in Nepal (David Henderson)
* Part IV: Theorizing Social Action
* Chapter Eleven: Modes of theorizing in Iranian Khorasan (Stephen
Blum)
* Chapter Twelve: Zahirok: The musical base of Baloch minstrelsy (Sabir
Badalkhan)
* Chapter Thirteen: Varõams and vocalizations: The special status of
some musical beginnings (Richard K. Wolf)
* Glossary
* Bibliography