Dancing with Devtas
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Musical Transcriptions -- List of Audio Examples -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Transliteration of Hindi and Garhwali Texts -- Key to Musical Transcriptions -- Introduction -- Part 1 Contextualizing the Study -- 1 Sounding the Drum: Power and Meaning in the Context of Performance -- Contextual inquiry -- Meaning and power in music: a theoretical framework -- The m…
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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Musical Transcriptions -- List of Audio Examples -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Transliteration of Hindi and Garhwali Texts -- Key to Musical Transcriptions -- Introduction -- Part 1 Contextualizing the Study -- 1 Sounding the Drum: Power and Meaning in the Context of Performance -- Contextual inquiry -- Meaning and power in music: a theoretical framework -- The metaphysics of sound in Hindu philosophy -- A note on possession -- 2 Dev Bhūmi: Land of the Gods
Folkloric studies of the region -- Ritual practices and the calendrical cycle -- The geography of Garhwal -- A brief political history of Garhwal -- The Garhwali language -- 3 Caste Groups and Instrumentalists -- Musician castes and non-caste musical specialists -- Implications of the recording industry for the status of musicians -- 4 Performance Genres and Dance Practice -- Genre names -- The gāthā (epic) repertoire -- The lok-gīt (folk-song) repertoire -- Music of the recording industry -- 5 Musical Instruments in Garhwal -- Outdoor instruments -- Indoor instruments
6 Ḍhol Sāgar: The Ocean of Drumming -- The Ḍholsāgar Sañgrah: a recent scholarly publication -- Additional secondary source references to the Ḍhol Sāgar -- Ḍhol Sāgar as an oral entity -- Part 2 Analysis and Description of Musical Events: Musical Power in the Context of Performance -- 7 Drumming Associated with Pāñḍavalīlā -- Pāñḍavalīlā and Pāñḍavanritya: rituals of drama, dance, worship and celebration -- An overview of dancing and drumming at Pāñḍavalīlā rituals -- The aural and the visual: dilemmas of transcription -- The Pāñḍavalīlā repertoire of Budna
Variation amongst Pāñḍavalīlā celebrations elsewhere in Garhwal -- The role of music as an agent between visible and invisible worlds -- 8 Music in the Context of Wedding Celebrations -- Marriage practices in Garhwal -- A wedding in the village of Kakhwari -- Musical repertoire at a Garhwali wedding celebration -- Adaptive strategies in present-day practice -- The role of music in the context of a wedding -- 9 The Pawāṛā of Kirthipal and Kunjepal -- The story -- The singer of the tale -- The musical mode of delivery -- Examples of eight vocal delivery styles -- Formal design
Dramatic events, dramatic sounds -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Four spheres of musical power -- A final word -- Appendices -- 1 'Oṭūwā Beleṇā': Devanagari Text and Transliteration -- 2 Devanagari Text Excerpts with Translation from the Pawāṛā of Kirthipal and Kunjepal -- 3 Aural Sources -- Glossary of Selected Garhwali and Hindi Terms -- Bibliography -- Discography of Selected Commercially Released Cassettes -- Index
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- Publication Date:2008
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- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Florence
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008
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- Description:1 Online-Ressource (302 Seiten)
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- ISBN:9781351946407, 1351946404, 9780754656692, 0754656691
- oclc:on1020855205
- Dewey Decimal:781.62914110542
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