Weidman Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern

The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8805-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

An ethnographic history and critique of the emergence of South Indian carnatic music as a "classical" music in the 20th century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weidman, Amanda J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xii

Acknowledgements ix

Note on Transliteration of Spelling xvii

Introduction 1

1. Gone Native?: Travels of the Violin in South India 25

2. From the Palace to the Street: Staging “Classical” Music 59

3. Gender and the Politics of Voice 111

4. Can the Subaltern Sing?: Music, Language, and the Politics of Voice 150

5. A Writing Lesson: Musicology and the Birth of the Composer 192

6. Fantasic Fidelities 245

Afterword: Modernity and the Voice 286

Notes 291

Works Cited 325

Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda J. Weidman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.