Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Sarah L. Morelli, Zoe C. Sherinian, University of Denver) Morelli, Sarah L. (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Oklahoma) Sherinian, Zoe C. (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Chair of the Division of Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Music in General Studies, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Chair of the Division of Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Music in General Studies, Sarah L Morelli, Zoe C Sherinian

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Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music, dance, and allied arts of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. The authors in this collection--ethnomusicologists, dance scholars, anthropologists, and practitioners--understand music and dance as everyday lived experience. "The everyday" comprises practices of South Asians in multiple countries, whose identities include numerous castes, classes, tribes, genders, sexualities, religions, nationalities, more than twenty languages, and other affiliations. With the goal to de-emphasize an approach that fetishizes analysis of classical form and its technical virtuosity, this book instead contextualizes the understanding of aesthetic meaning within six themes: place and community; style, genre, and function; intersectional identities of caste, class, and tribe; gender and sexuality; technology, media, and transmission; and diaspora and globalization.The thirty chapters in this collection demonstrate how the arts are meaningful expressions of human identities and relationships for ordinary people as well as virtuosic performers. Each author ties their thesis to hands-on, participatory exercises that provide multiple entryways to understand and engage with cultural meaning. In so doing, they empower classroom dialogue that treats embodied experience as a vital mode of enquiry, supplementing critical textual analysis to cultivate attentive, responsive, and ethical dispositions toward the music and dance practices of other humans and their life experiences.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-04
Mått155 x 236 x 31 mm
Vikt762 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor544
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197791974

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Sarah Morelli is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Denver and author of A Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2019). Also a performing kathak dancer, she is a Founding Artist and Soloist with the Leela Dance Collective and Artistic Director of Leela Denver. kathak dancer, she is a Founding Artist and Soloist with theZoe C. Sherinian is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma. She has published the monograph Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology (Indiana University Press, 2014) and coedited Making Congregational Music Local: Indigenous Songs and Cosmopolitan Styles in the Music of Global Christianity (Routledge, 2017).

Introduction: Comprehensive Approaches to South Asian Sound and Movement Sarah L. Morelli and Zoe C. Sherinian Section One: Identity in Place and Community Introduction by Peter Kvetko and Sarah L. Morelli 1. A Sense of the City: Embodied Practice and Popular Music in MumbaiPeter Kvetko 2. A Melody of Lucknow: Hearing History in North Indian MusicMax Katz 3. Sufi Devotional Performances in Multan, Pakistan, a "City of Saints"Karim Gillani 4. Hale da Divan: Trance, Historical Consciousness, and the Ecstasy of Separation in Namdhari Sikh ServicesJanice Protopapas 5. "Small Voices Sing Big Songs": Music as Development in the Thar DesertShalini R. Ayyagari Section Two: Performance Dynamics: Style, Genre, Coding, and Function Introduction by Zoe C. Sherinian 6. Changing Musical Style and Social Identity in Tamil Christian KirttanaiZoe C. Sherinian 7. Professional Weeping: Music, Affect, and Hierarchy in a South Indian Folk Performance ArtPaul D. Greene 8. Sindhi Kafi and Vernacular Islam in Western IndiaBrian E. Bond 9. Music, Religious Experience, and Nationalism in Marathi Rashtriya KirtanAnna Schultz 10. Prestige, Status, and the History of Instrumental Music in North IndiaGeorge E. Ruckert Section Three: Intersectional Dynamics: Caste, Class, and TribeIntroduction by Zoe C. Sherinian 11. Mundari Performance After the Revolution: Did Dance Save the Tribe?Carol M. Babiracki 12. Systematic and Embodied Music Theory of Tamil Parai DrummersZoe C. Sherinian 13. Caste, Class, Aesthetics, and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam DanceHari Krishnan and Davesh Soneji with a contribution by Nrithya Pillai 14. Sacred Song, Food, and the Affective Embodied Experience of Non-Othering in the Sikh TraditionInderjit N. Kaur 15. Following in the Footsteps of Muria Music and DanceRoderic Knight Section Four: Identity in Gender and SexualityIntroduction by Zoe C. Sherinian 16. Bhangra Brotherhood: Gender, Music, and Nationalism in Rang De BasantiPavitra Sundar 17. Disrupted Divas: Conflicting Pathways of India's Socially Marginalized Female EntertainersAmelia Maciszewski 18. "All the Parts of Who I Am": Multi-Gendered Performance in Kathak DanceSarah L. Morelli 19. Music and the Trans-thirunangai Everyday at Koovagam, Tamil NaduJeff Roy 20. Performing Youthful Desires: Bihu Festival Music and Dance in Assam, IndiaRehanna Kheshgi Section Five: Technology, Media, and TransmissionIntroduction by Sarah L. Morelli 21. "We Know What Our Folk Culture Is from Cassettes and Videos": Rethinking the Popular-Folk Dynamic in the Indian HimalayasStefan Fiol 22. The Female Voice in Hindi Cinema: Agency, Representation, and ChangeNatalie Sarrazin 23. Love Politics, and Life Between Village and City in Nepali Lok Dohori: One Album, Three TitlesAnna Marie Stirr 24. Pedagogy and Embodiment in the Transmission of Kerala Temple DrummingRolf Groesbeck 25. Sonic Gift-Giving in Sri Lankan BuddhismJim Sykes Section Six: Diaspora and GlobalizationIntroduction by Nilanjana Bhattacharjya and Sarah L. Morelli 26. Contemporizing Kandyan DanceSusan A. Reed 27. Desi Dance Music: A Transnational PhenomenonNilanjana Bhattacharjya and Rekha Malhotra 28. Dance in The Round: Embodying Inclusivity and Interdependence through GarbaParijat Desai 29. Tamil Rap and Social Status in MalaysiaAaron Paige 30. Beyond the Silver Screen: Filmi Aesthetics in Bollywood Fitness ClassesAmeera Nimjee Index

An outstanding volume that combines exceptional scholarship and range striking a register that will appeal to the expert as much as the general reader. The recognition that music and the performing arts are the lifeblood of social relations in South Asia, ranging across spaces that include the domestic, the sacred, the cinematic, and the contentious politics of performance framed by power and hierarchy, makes this volume singular and unique in its imagination. An intervention that will change forever how we think questions of embodied and sonicaesthetics in relation to the political in South Asia.