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The musical gift : sonic generosity in post-war Sri Lanka /
The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by ethnic and religious difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that the genres we currently recognize as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not origina...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Critical conjunctures in music & sound.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I : Finding Musical Gifts
- Introduction : For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation
- 1. Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies
- Part II : Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction
- Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts
- 2. Beravā Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts
- 3. Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction
- 4. The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money
- Part III : The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving
- 5. Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War
- Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six Languages
- Checkpoint: Sound as Commodity (Identity) versus Sound as Gift (Identity + Relations)
- 6. The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas
- Part IV Rediscovering Musical Giving
- Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures
- Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka/