Theorizing the local
Subtitle: music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond
By: [edited by] Richard K. Wolf.
Contributors: Wolf, Richard K., 1962-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195331370; 9780195331387
Subjects: Music -- South Asia -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard K. Wolf; title: 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; title: Spaces and itineraries. Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory Booth ; The princess of the musicians : Rāni Bhāñiyāõi and the mānganāir of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri ; Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner; title: 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; title: Theorizing social action. Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum ; Zahirok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan ; Varõams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf.