Marginalised music
Subtitle: music, religion and politics from Western Odisha, India
By: Lidia Guzy
Series: KlangKulturStudien = -- SoundCultureStudies -- Band 8; KlangKulturStudien -- Bd. 8.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783643902726
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Folk music; Hinduism; Ethnology; Social Marginality; Social conditions; Social aspects; Religion; Politik; Musik; Volksmusik
Notes: First presented as author's thesis (doctoral), Freie Universität, Berlin, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Music as culture, medium and religion; title: The region. The Bora Sambar region ; Oral history ; The sacred landscape of the Bora Sambar region and the memory of resistance; title: Religion, rituals, music. A boil ritual in Sargival Village ; Thea-phony : music and the goddess ; The village orchestra : Ganda Baja; title: Dance and ritual as idioms of affinity and alliance. Dalkhai dance ; Tin sali yatra : a ritual of divine marriage ; Binjhal Biha; title: Music, movement, death and ailment. The "guilt and expiation priest-musicians" ; The concept of sur : sound and liberation ; Itinerary non-Brahmin priest-musicians; title: Music and the market. Baja bazaar : sacred music for sale ; The market of gods; title: Music as religious instruction and cultural transfer. Sanchar ; Krishna guru parties ; Pala; title: Possession and performance in western Odisha. Nag bacca : the snake children and their rituals ; Sobri Sobren lila ; Dand nacho; title: From ritual to political music. Sambalpuri folklore ; Music, politics and ethnicity ; Music, modernisation and dalit power.