| Description |
xiii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard K. Wolf -- Bodies and instruments. Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton -- Spaces and itineraries. Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory D. Booth ; The princess of the musicians : Rāni Bhaṭiyāṇi and the māngaṇiārs of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri ; Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner -- Learning and transmission. Disciple and preceptor/performer in Kerala / Rolf Groesbeck ; Sīna ba sīna or "from father to son" : writing the culture of discipleship / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi ; Handmade in Nepal / David Henderson -- Theorizing social action. Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum ; Zahīrok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan ; Varṇams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Music -- South Asia -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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South Asia. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Wolf, Richard K., 1962- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780195331370 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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0195331370 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9780195331387 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0195331389 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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