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Singing across divides : music and intimate politics in Nepal /

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An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stirr, Anna Marie, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Music > Social aspects > Nepal.
Nepal > Social life and customs.
Musique > Aspect social > Népal.
MusicManners and customs.Music > Social aspects > Social aspects. > Nepal..
Nepal..
Social life and customs..
Manners and customs
Music > Social aspects
Nepal
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • [Machine generated contents note]. 1. Tending the Flower Garden: Legacies of Panchayat Musical Nationalism
  • 2. Heading Home: Festival Dohori in a Hill Village
  • 3. Songs with Consequences? Songfests and Binding Dohori Contests in the Rural Hills
  • 4. Sounding and Staging Village Nepal
  • 5. Professional Dohori and Economies of Honor
  • 6. Love, Solidarity, and Sociopolitical Change
  • 7. Violence, Storytelling, and World-Making in Song.