Gibb Schreffler is an associate professor of music at Pomona College. He is the author of Boxing the Compass: A Century and a Half of Discourse about Sailors' Chanties.

• List of Figures ixList of Audiovisual Examples xiNote on Translation and Transliteration xiiiPreface xvIntroduction: Drumming to the Beat of a Different March 11 The Short End of the Stick: Strategies of Identification 352 Dhol Manifested: Body, Sound, and Structure 593 Asking Rude Questions: Dholi Ethnicity 924 A Portrait of a Dholi and His Community 1285 Becoming and Being a Dholi 1486 Dhol Players in a New World 1727 Return to Punjab, Turning Punjab 193Notes 217Bibliography 229Index 241

"Highly recommended." --Choice"Written with great intimacy and compassion, Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab is a study of the aspirations and negotiations of those who love the dhol and live the life of a dholi. . . . The book is also a welcome addition to a burgeoning body of work that seeks to reexamine the abundance of drumming traditions in South Asia on its own terms." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews"A compassionately written and deeply researched ethnography and historiography of dhol playing in Punjab as well as the Punjabi diaspora in North American and the United Kingdom. It paves new ground in assessing the mutual interaction between these distinct populations while demonstrating the challenges that face dhol-playing communities due to neoliberalism, cultural nationalism, and the growth and financial clout of the Punjabi diaspora."--Stefan Fiol, author of Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility