Singing a Hindu Nation

Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism

AvAnna Schultz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rāgs>rīya kīrtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Beginning during the anti-colonial movement of the late nineteenth-century, performers of rāgs>rīya kīrtan led masses of Marathi-speaking people in temples and streets, and they have continued to preach and sing nationalism as devotion in the post-colonial era, and into the twenty-first century. In this book, author Anna Schultz demonstrates how, through this particular form of musical performance, the political becomes devotional, and explores why it motivates people to action and violence. Through both historical and ethnographic studies, Schultz shows that rāgs>rīya kīrtan has been especially successful in combining these two realms because kīrtankārs perform as representatives of the divine sage Narad, thereby infusing their nationalist messages with ritual weight. By speaking and singing in regional idioms with rich associations for Maharashtrian congregations, they use music to combine political and religious signs in ways that seem natural and desirable, promoting embodied experiences of nationalist devotion. As the first monograph on music and Hindu-nationalism, Singing a Hindu Nation presents a rare glimpse into the lives and performance worlds of nationalists on the margins of all-India political parties and cultural organizations, and is an essential resource for ethnomusicologists, as well as scholars of South Asian studies, religion, and political theory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-10
Mått:236 x 160 x 17 mm
Vikt:474 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199730827

Utforska kategorier

Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Världsmusik inom Kultur
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Anna Schultz earned the Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Stanford University, where she works on Marathi kirtan, Indo-Caribbean music, paraliturgical Indian Jewish music, and country/bluegrass music.

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Elegantly crafted, Singing a Hindu Nation is a historically grounded ethnography of the kirtan genre of singing and storytelling in Maharashtra, India. Exploring a spectrum of devotional performances, Schultz demonstrates the potency of kirtan in animating traditional aesthetic categories and manipulating public opinion. This timely work not only reveals a lesser known facet of Hindu nationalism, it contributes significantly to the growing body of scholarship delineating music's critical role in a variety of Indian modernist projects.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ; Notes on Transliteration and Orthography ; About the Companion Website ; 1. Introduction. Standing on Narad's Mat: Nationalism and ; Hindu Performance in Western India ; PART I: Marathi Kartan and Modernity Before 1947 ; 2. Naradaya Kartan for "Modern Educated People" ; 3. Raunraya Kartan: Resisting Modernity, Devotionalizing Nationalism ; PART II: Nationalist Kartan Within and Beyond the Post-Colonial State ; 4. "From 'Home Rule' to 'Good Rule'": Nationalism and Kartan After Independence ; 5. The Re-Institutionalization of Marathi Kartan: Hindutva Networks and Gender ; PART III: Performing a Hindu Nation ; 6. Performance, Genre, and Politics in Raunraya Kartan ; 7: Sudhatai Dhamankar: Embedded Embodiments ; 8. Yogeshwar Upasani: The Collision of Genres and Collusion of Participants ; 9. Conclusion ; References ; Glossary