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Singing a Hindu Nation - Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism (Hardcover)
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Singing a Hindu Nation - Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism (Hardcover)
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Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rags>riya kirtan, 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 rags>riya kirtan 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 rags>riya kirtan
has been especially successful in combining these two realms
because kirtankars 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.
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