Music in Colonial Punjab PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Music in Colonial Punjab PDF full book. Access full book title Music in Colonial Punjab by Radha Kapuria. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.

Music in Colonial Punjab

Music in Colonial Punjab PDF Author: Radha Kapuria
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192692925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan.
➤