Recasting Folk in the Himalayas Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility /

"Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the "folk...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiol, Stefan Patrick
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1vsk8qm
Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Geneologies of the Folk Concept in Colonial Uttarakhand""; ""2 Mohan Upreti and the Assimilation of Folk Music in Nehruvian India""; ""3 Turning Dying Folk into Living Folk: The Musical Activism of Narendra Singh Negi""; ""4 The Folk Sound without the Folk Body: Sohan Lal and the Rhizophonics of Dhol-Damaun""; ""5 Professional Female Singers and the Gendering of Folk""; ""6 The Goddess Plugged In: Pritam Bhartwan and the Commodification of Possession Rituals""
  • ""Conclusion""""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""