Musical Resilience

Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert

von Shalini R Ayyagari

256 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial worldIn Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's independence in 1947, the Manganiyar community of hereditary musicians were tied to traditional patrons over centuries and through hereditary ties. In postcolonial India, traditional patronage relations faded due to new political conditions, technological shifts, and cultural change. Ayyagari uses resilience, one of the most poignant keywords of our times, to understand how Manganiyar musicians sustain and enliven their cultural significance after the fading of traditional patronage.

• Themen: Kunst Musik Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie
• ISBN: 9780819500090
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.11.2022
• Größe: 232 x 154 mm
• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press