Singing a Hindu Nation - Anna Schultz

Singing a Hindu Nation

Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism

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Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973082-7 (ISBN)
133,95 inkl. MwSt
Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rāgs>rīya kīrtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Author Anna Schultz demonstrates how, through this particular form of musical performance, the political becomes devotional, and explores why it motivates people to action and violence.
Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rāgs>rīya kīrtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Beginning during the anti-colonial movement of the late nineteenth-century, performers of rāgs>rīya kīrtan led masses of Marathi-speaking people in temples and streets, and they have continued to preach and sing nationalism as devotion in the post-colonial era, and into the twenty-first century. In this book, author Anna Schultz demonstrates how, through this particular form of musical performance, the political becomes devotional, and explores why it motivates people to action and violence. Through both historical and ethnographic studies, Schultz shows that rāgs>rīya kīrtan has been especially successful in combining these two realms because kīrtankārs perform as representatives of the divine sage Narad, thereby infusing their nationalist messages with ritual weight. By speaking and singing in regional idioms with rich associations for Maharashtrian congregations, they use music to combine political and religious signs in ways that seem natural and desirable, promoting embodied experiences of nationalist devotion. As the first monograph on music and Hindu-nationalism, Singing a Hindu Nation presents a rare glimpse into the lives and performance worlds of nationalists on the margins of all-India political parties and cultural organizations, and is an essential resource for ethnomusicologists, as well as scholars of South Asian studies, religion, and political theory.

Anna Schultz earned the Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Stanford University, where she works on Marathi kirtan, Indo-Caribbean music, paraliturgical Indian Jewish music, and country/bluegrass music.

Acknowledgements ; Notes on Transliteration and Orthography ; About the Companion Website ; 1. Introduction. Standing on Narad's Mat: Nationalism and ; Hindu Performance in Western India ; PART I: Marathi Kartan and Modernity Before 1947 ; 2. Naradaya Kartan for "Modern Educated People" ; 3. Raunraya Kartan: Resisting Modernity, Devotionalizing Nationalism ; PART II: Nationalist Kartan Within and Beyond the Post-Colonial State ; 4. "From 'Home Rule' to 'Good Rule'": Nationalism and Kartan After Independence ; 5. The Re-Institutionalization of Marathi Kartan: Hindutva Networks and Gender ; PART III: Performing a Hindu Nation ; 6. Performance, Genre, and Politics in Raunraya Kartan ; 7: Sudhatai Dhamankar: Embedded Embodiments ; 8. Yogeshwar Upasani: The Collision of Genres and Collusion of Participants ; 9. Conclusion ; References ; Glossary

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.1.2013
Zusatzinfo 37 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 236 x 160 mm
Gewicht 474 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Liturgik / Homiletik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-973082-2 / 0199730822
ISBN-13 978-0-19-973082-7 / 9780199730827
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