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Theorizing the local : music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond / edited by Richard K. Wolf.

Other author/creatorWolf, Richard K., 1962-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxiii, 329 p. : ill., maps, music ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Contents Introduction / Richard K. Wolf -- Bodies and instruments. Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton -- Spaces and itineraries. Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory D. Booth ; The princess of the musicians : Rāni Bhaṭiyāṇi and the māngaṇiārs of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri ; Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner -- Learning and transmission. Disciple and preceptor/performer in Kerala / Rolf Groesbeck ; Sīna ba sīna or "from father to son" : writing the culture of discipleship / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi ; Handmade in Nepal / David Henderson -- Theorizing social action. Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum ; Zahīrok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan ; Varṇams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008041052
ISBN9780195331370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0195331370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780195331387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0195331389 (pbk. : alk. paper)