Niranjana Musicophilia in Mumbai

Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0919-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century, showing how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niranjana, Tejaswini

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. On Not Being Able to Learn Music 1
1. "Yaa Nagari Mein Lakh Darwaza": Musicophilia and the Lingua Musica in Mumbai 19
2. Mehfil (Performance): The Spaces of Music 46
3. Deewaana (The Mad One): The Lover of Music 86
4. Taleem: Pedagogy and the Performing Subject 128
5. Nearness as Distance, or Distance as Nearness 162
Afterword 181
Glossary 199
Notes 205
Selected Bibliography 227
Index 235

Über Autor(innen)

Tejaswini Niranjana is Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and author of Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad, also published by Duke University Press, and Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context.