Jim Sykes is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in sound and music studies, religious studies, labor history/capitalism, and conflict studies, focusing to date on Sri Lanka and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Remapping Sound Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). He is also a drummer who has recorded and toured widely with numerous experimental and indie rock groups.

• Preface & AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationSupplementary Materials Part One: Finding Musical Gifts Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts Chapter Two: Berav=a Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six LanguagesChapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka References

In his multicultural analysis of Sri Lanka's soundscape, Sykes emphasizes the public exchange of melodies and rhythms, rituals and dances, between the island's diverse religions and ethnicities. This is an anthropologically rich book presenting a strong case against musical ethno-nationalism.

Jim Sykes is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in sound and music studies, religious studies, labor history/capitalism, and conflict studies, focusing to date on Sri Lanka and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Remapping Sound Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). He is also a drummer who has recorded and toured widely with numerous experimental and indie rock groups.

• Preface & AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationSupplementary Materials Part One: Finding Musical Gifts Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts Chapter Two: Berav=a Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six LanguagesChapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka References

In his multicultural analysis of Sri Lanka's soundscape, Sykes emphasizes the public exchange of melodies and rhythms, rituals and dances, between the island's diverse religions and ethnicities. This is an anthropologically rich book presenting a strong case against musical ethno-nationalism.

Jim Sykes is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in sound and music studies, religious studies, labor history/capitalism, and conflict studies, focusing to date on Sri Lanka and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Remapping Sound Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). He is also a drummer who has recorded and toured widely with numerous experimental and indie rock groups.

• Preface & AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationSupplementary Materials Part One: Finding Musical Gifts Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts Chapter Two: Berav=a Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six LanguagesChapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka References

In his multicultural analysis of Sri Lanka's soundscape, Sykes emphasizes the public exchange of melodies and rhythms, rituals and dances, between the island's diverse religions and ethnicities. This is an anthropologically rich book presenting a strong case against musical ethno-nationalism.