Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility - Couverture souple

Fiol, Stefan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252082753 ISBN 13 : 9780252082757

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2017

Synopsis

Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the oefolk � designation can alternately identify a universal stage of humanity, or denote alterity and subordination. Fiol explores the lives and work of Gahrwali artists who produce folk music. These musicians create art as both a discursive idea and as a set of expressive practices across strikingly different historical and cultural settings. Juxtaposing performance contexts in Himalayan villages with Delhi recording studios, Fiol shows how the practices have emerged within and between sites of contrasting values and expectations. Throughout, Fiol presents the varying perspectives and complex lives of the upper-caste, upper-class, male performers spearheading the processes of folklorization. But he also charts their resonance with, and collision against, the perspectives of the women and hereditary musicians most affected by the processes. Expertly observed, Recasting Folk in the Himalayas offers an engaging immersion in a little-studied musical milieu.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stefan Fiol is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Cincinnati.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252082753
• ISBN 13: 9780252082757
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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