The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new...
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Author: Eben Graves
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The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance by Graves, Eben

The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance

¥14,184

The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance

¥14,184
Author: Eben Graves
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own musical careers.

The Politics of Musical Time traces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kīrtan in the Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the shifting meanings and practices of devotional performance. Focusing on padābalī kīrtan, a type of devotional sung poetry that uses long-duration forms and combines song and storytelling, Eben Graves examines how expressions of religious affect and political belonging linked with the genre become strained in contemporary, shortened performance time frames. To illustrate the political economy of performance in South Asia, Graves also explores how religious performances and texts interact with issues of nationalism, gender, and economic exchange.

Combining ethnography, history, and performance analysis, including videos from the author's fieldwork, The Politics of Musical Time reveals how ideas about the sacred and the modern have been expressed and contested through features of musical time found in devotional performance.



Author: Eben Graves
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 430
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780253064387

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