Field Modernizing Composition

Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-96775-5
Verlag: University of California Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

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The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry.
Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India’s relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Field, Garrett

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration


Introduction


Part One: The Colonial Era

1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World

2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala Fraternity

3. Wartime Romance


Part Two: The Postcolonial Era

4. Divergent Standards of Excellence

5. For the People

6. Illusions to Disillusions


Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Field, Garrett
Garrett Field is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Music at Ohio University.