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.
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