Title Sacred and secular musics : a postcolonial approach / Virinder S. Kalra.

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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music
	Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Alaap, introduction -- Postcolonial musicological present -- Sacred:classical:clessicul -- Crafting kirtan -- Saying qaul, being qawaal, singing qawwali -- Drumming devotion -- Finale.
Summary	How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the 18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary exploration of what is ostensibly sacred music in South Asia. Offering a potent critique of musicological knowledge-making, Virinder S. Kalra explores examples of South Asian musics in various domains and traverses a new cartography of music in which the sacred and the secular overlap. Drawing on examples which include Qawwali, kirtan and p.
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Subject	Sacred music -- Pakistan -- History and criticism.
	Sacred music.
	Pakistan.
	Sacred music -- India -- Punjab -- History and criticism.
	India -- Punjab.
	Music -- Pakistan -- Western influences.
	Music.
	Music -- India -- Punjab -- Western influences.
	Qawwālī -- History and criticism.
	Qawwālī.
	Kirtana (Sikhism)
	Kirtana (Sikhism)
	Postcolonialism -- Pakistan.
	Postcolonialism -- India -- Punjab.
	Sociology & anthropology.
	Music.
	Religion: general.
	Postcolonialism.
	MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
	Music -- Western influences.
	Qawwālī.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Kalra, Virinder S. Sacred and secular musics 9781441121325 (DLC) 2014023551 (OCoLC)852224517
ISBN	9781441100450 (electronic book)
	1441100458 (electronic book)
	9781472552600
	1472552601
	9781441108661
	1441108661
	9781441121325
	1441121323

Title Sacred and secular musics : a postcolonial approach / Virinder S. Kalra.

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