Musical Resilience (eBook)

Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert

Shalini R. Ayyagari (Autor)

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2022
256 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0011-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's independence in 1947, the Manganiyar community of hereditary musicians were tied to traditional patrons over centuries and through hereditary ties. In postcolonial India, traditional patronage relations faded due to new political conditions, technological shifts, and cultural change. Ayyagari uses resilience, one of the most poignant keywords of our times, to understand how Manganiyar musicians sustain and enliven their cultural significance after the fading of traditional patronage.

Autor

SHALINI AYYAGARI (Pittsburgh, PA) is an ethnomusicologist who works across the fields of musical culture, South Asian studies, critical ethnography, and development studies. She is an Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhalt

CONTENTS • Chapter 1: Introduction • Chapter 2: (Post)Patronage • Chapter 3: Performance • Chapter 4: Development • Chapter 5: Politics • Chapter 6: Conclusion • Epilogue: Pandemic • Appendix • Figures • References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: Indian Ethnomusicology, postcolonial village India, Manganiyar musicians, non-classical musician, South Asian studies, musical community, Indian folklore, modern and traditional music, anthropology, Indian Caste System, Music as politics, Hindu music, post patronage performance, Hindustani Classical music, South Asian tourism, Indian-Pakistan border, autoethnographic experience, Western Rajasthan, Manganiyar masculinity, public performance, musical and cultural flows, Manganiyar women, social context of Man
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-0011-9 / 0819500119
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-0011-3 / 9780819500113