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Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology /

Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who dre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sherinian, Zoe C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomingdon, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : context and concepts : singing the Lord's prayer as freedom in a Tamil land
  • How can the subaltern speak? Musical style, value, and the historical process of
  • (Re)indigenization of Tamil Christian music
  • Sharing the meal : a Dalit family's dialogue with the history of Tamil Christian music, 1850-1994
  • Paraṭṭai's theology : greeting God in the cēri
  • Ethnography as transformative musical dialogue
  • Reception and transformation from seminary to village
  • Performing global Dalit consciousness.