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Sacred and Secular Musics - A Postcolonial Approach (Paperback)
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Sacred and Secular Musics - A Postcolonial Approach (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music
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How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the
context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it
frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the
18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary
exploration of what is ostensibly sacred music in South Asia.
Offering a potent critique of musicological knowledge-making,
Virinder S. Kalra explores examples of South Asian musics in
various domains and traverses a new cartography of music in which
the sacred and the secular overlap. Drawing on examples which
include Qawwali, kirtan and popular devotional genres, Sacred and
Secular Musics offers new empirical material, as well as new
insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in
which music performs sacredness and secularity across the contested
India-Pakistan border in the region of Punjab. Through its
deconstruction of the sacred/secular opposition, Sacred and Secular
Musics explores the relationship of religion and music to wider
questions of religion and politics. Its postcolonial approach
brings Asia into the Western sacred/secular opposition, and
provides a set of analytical tools - a language and range of
theories - to allow further exploration of non-western religious
music.
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