Sacred and Secular Musics
A Postcolonial Approach
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 popular devotional genres, Sacred and Secular Musics…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-0866-1
- EAN: 9781441108661
- Produktnummer: 17205695
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 420 KB
Über den Autor
Virinder S. Kalra is Professor of Sociology, at the University of Warwick, UK.
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