Sacred and secular musics
Subtitle: a postcolonial approach
By: Virinder S. Kalra
Series: Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music; Bloomsbury studies in religion and popular music
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781441121325; 9781474288859; 9781441100450; 9781441108661
Subjects: Postcolonialism; Western influences; Music; History and criticism; Sacred music; Kirtana (Sikhism); Qawwālī
Description: This volume 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.
Notes: Paperback edition printed 2016.

"Transcription and music website": page xii; "Music clip list": pages 171-172; "Glossary": pages 229-231.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alaap, introduction; title: Postcolonial musicological present; title: Sacred-classical-clessicul; title: Crafting kirtan; title: Saying qaul, being qawaal, singing qawwali; title: Drumming devotion; title: Finale.