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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465799703321

Titolo

Theorizing the local [[electronic resource] ] : music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond / / edited by Richard K. Wolf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-33555-3

0-19-971600-5

9786612335556

0-19-533138-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfRichard K. <1962->

Disciplina

780.954

Soggetti

Music - South Asia - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Richard K. Wolf -- Bodies and instruments. Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton -- Spaces and itineraries. Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory D. Booth ; The princess of the musicians : Rāni Bhaṭiyāṇi and the māngaṇiārs of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri ; Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner -- Learning and transmission. Disciple and preceptor/performer in Kerala / Rolf Groesbeck ; Sīna ba sīna or "from father to son" : writing the culture of discipleship / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi ; Handmade in Nepal / David Henderson -- Theorizing social action. Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum ; Zahīrok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan ; Varṇams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf.

Sommario/riassunto

'Theorizing the Local' rethinks South Asian music in light of diverse regional practices. Using comparative microstudies to cross the



traditional borders of scholarship on Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Iran, the book provides new footing for South Asia in the study of today's musical world.