Singing Across Divides - Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal (Hardcover)

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, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and accompanying dance, performed between men and women, with a primary focus on romantic love. The book tells the story of dohori's relationship with changing ideas of Nepal as a nation-state, and how different nationalist concepts of unity have incorporated marginality, in the intersectional arenas of caste, indigeneity, class, gender, and regional identity. Dohori gets at the heart of tensions around ethnic, caste, and gender difference, as it promotes potentially destabilizing musical and poetic interactions, love, sex, and marriage across these social divides. In the aftermath of Nepal's ten-year civil war, changing political realities, increased migration, and circulation of people, media and practices are redefining concepts of appropriate intimate relationships and their associated systems of exchange. Through multi-sited ethnography of performances, media production, circulation, reception, and the daily lives of performers and fans in Nepal and the UK, Singing Across Divides examines how people use dohori to challenge (and uphold) social categories, while also creating affective solidarities.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2017
Authors:	Anna Marie Stirr (Assistant Professor of Asian Studies)
Dimensions:	236 x 164 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-063197-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > World music Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > World music Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-063197-X
Barcode:	9780190631970

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