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Theorizing the Local - Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Theorizing the Local - Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Over the past four decades, the spectacular, "globalized" aspects
of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly -
and consumer - attention, particularly in the study of South Asian
music. Ethnomusicologists increasingly cast their studies in
transnational terms, in part to take account of these emerging,
globally mediated forms and their localized counterparts. As a
result, a broad range of community-based and other locally-focused
performance traditions in the regions of South Asia have remained
relatively unexplored. markets have fostered the development of an
aesthetic based The authors of Theorizing the Local provide a
challenging and compelling counter-perspective to the overwhelming
attention paid to the "globalized," arguing for the sustained value
of comparative microstudies which are not concerned primarily with
the flow of capital and neoliberal politics. What does it mean,
they ask, for musical activities to be local in an increasingly
interconnected world? What are the motivations for theoretical
thought, and how are theoretical formulations instigated by the
needs of performers, agents promoting regional identity, efforts to
sustain or counter gender conventions, or desires to compete? To
what extent can theoretical activity be localized to the very acts
of making music, interacting, and composing? intriguing-often music
sharing common melodic, harmonic, or Theorizing the Local offers
unusual glimpses into rich musical worlds of south and west Asia,
worlds which have never before been presented in a single volume.
The authors cross the traditional borders of scholarship and
region, exploring in unmatched detail a vast array of musical
practices and significant ethnographic discoveries extending from
Nepal to India, India to Sri Lanka, Pakistan to Iran. Enriched by
audio and video tracks on the extensive companion website,
Theorizing the Local represents an important and necessary addition
to the study of South Asian musical traditions and a broader
understanding of 21st century music of the world.
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