Music In Colonial Punjab

Author : Radha Kapuria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192692924

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Music in Colonial Punjab by Radha Kapuria Pdf

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan.

Author : Katherine Butler Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009058407

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Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India by Katherine Butler Schofield Pdf

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748–1858 and takes the lives of nine musicians as entry points into six prominent types of writing on music in Persian, Brajbhasha, Urdu and English, moving from Delhi to Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur and among the British. It shows how a key Mughal cultural field responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule, while addressing a central philosophical question: can we ever recapture the ephemeral experience of music once the performance is over? These rich, diverse sources shine new light on the wider historical processes of this pivotal transitional period, and provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the precise period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form.

Author : Virinder S. Kalra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441121325

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Sacred and Secular Musics by Virinder S. Kalra Pdf

An exploration of the?sacred and secular opposition?as it appears in specific forms in African American, South Asian and European music.

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné,Maria Framke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429774690

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Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia by Harald Fischer-Tiné,Maria Framke Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and ‘turns’ within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts: Overarching Themes and Debates The World of Economy and Labour Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education Environment and Space Culture, Media, and the Everyday Colonial South Asia in the World The editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad readership into the respective subfields and research topics. Designed to serve as a comprehensive and nuanced yet readable introduction to the vast field of the history of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, the handbook will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and global and world history.

Author : Virinder S. Kalra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441108661

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Sacred and Secular Musics by Virinder S. Kalra Pdf

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 offers new empirical material, as well as new insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in which music performs sacredness and secularity across the contested India-Pakistan border in the region of Punjab. Through its deconstruction of the sacred/secular opposition, Sacred and Secular Musics explores the relationship of religion and music to wider questions of religion and politics. Its postcolonial approach brings Asia into the Western sacred/secular opposition, and provides a set of analytical tools - a language and range of theories - to allow further exploration of non-western religious music.

Author : Farina Mir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9780520262690

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The Social Space of Language by Farina Mir Pdf

poetics of belonging in the region. --Book Jacket.

Author : Bob van der Linden
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 8173047596

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Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab by Bob van der Linden Pdf

Socio-intellectual history of the Sicngha Sabhaa, Arya Samaj, and Ahmadiyya, voluntary reform movements.

Author : Anjali Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317501473

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Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era by Anjali Roy Pdf

This book moves away from originary myths of region and identity that have dominated academic and mediatized representations of Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan after the Partition of 1947, and instead focuses on the role of the imagination in producing Punjab. It deconstructs Punjab as an ethno-spatial, ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural construct produced by the communities who dwell there, those who have left it and those formed by new narratives of the region.By isolating imaginings of Punjab that are not centred on exclusivist regional, linguistic, sectarian or caste perspectives, contributions to this book propose the concept of free-flowing cartographies in relation to Punjab, which facilitate its imaginings as a geographical region, a social construct and a state of consciousness. The region is simultaneously imagined as a small place, a neighbourhood, a city, and a village, but also as a performative practice and a certain ways of doing things. Through focusing on a number of Punjabi spaces and communities and engaging with Punjab as a geographical region, social construct and state of consciousness, the papers in the book hope to contribute to broader debates on transnationalism, postnationalism, micronationalism, and new identity narratives emerging in the twenty first century. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Author : Dina Siegel,Frank Bovenkerk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030498788

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Crime and Music by Dina Siegel,Frank Bovenkerk Pdf

This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology. Contributors discuss a range of topics, from how songs and artists draw on criminality as inspiration to how musical expression fulfills unexpected functions such as building deviant subcultures, encouraging social movements, or carrying messages of protest. Comprised of contributions from an international cohort of scholars, the book is categorized into five parts: The Criminalization of Music; Music and Violence; Organised Crime and Music; Music, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity and Music as Resistance. Spanning a range of cultures and time periods, Crime and Music will be of interest to researchers in critical and cultural criminology, the history of music, anthropology, ethnology, and sociology.

Author : Anshu Malhotra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0195672402

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Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities by Anshu Malhotra Pdf

Explores The Construction Of New Classes. Caste, Religion And Gender Identities In Colonial Punjab. Examines How The Notion Of Being High Caste-Contributed To The Formation Of A Middle Class Among The Hindus And The Sikhs. 5 Chapters-Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313653306

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Folk Music & Musical Instruments of Punjab by Anonim Pdf

Author : Churnjeet Mahn,Anne Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319645162

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Partition and the Practice of Memory by Churnjeet Mahn,Anne Murphy Pdf

This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence memories and can be subverted in important ways, through consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards that which has been lost – that is, the cultural whole that was the cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and linguistic lines – alongside forces that deny such connections. The chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).

Author : Bob van der Linden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137311641

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Music and Empire in Britain and India by Bob van der Linden Pdf

Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.

Author : Aneesh Pradhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Hindustani music
ISBN : 8188789968

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Hindustani Music in Colonial Bombay by Aneesh Pradhan Pdf

Author : Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000905908

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Pre-Partition Punjab’s Contribution to Indian Cinema by Ishtiaq Ahmed Pdf

This book traces the contribution of Punjabis born before the Partition of India in 1947 to Indian cinema. It examines the story of their contributions at three centres of Hindustani-language films: Bombay, Calcutta and Lahore. This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)