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Schultz: Singing a Hindu Nation

Schultz, Anna C.:
Singing a Hindu Nation : Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism / Anna Schultz. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - xii, 231 S. : Ill.
Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: Urbana-Champaign, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Diss., 2004 unter dem Titel: Rāṣṭrīya kīrtan of Maharashtra : musical fragments of nationalist politics
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Beschreibung
Singing a Hindu Nation explores how the political becomes devotional through musical performance. At the heart of author Anna Schultz's study is rāshtrīya kīrtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Performers of rāshtrīya kīrtan have impacted the political environment throughout the last century, inspiring Marathi-speaking people to resist colonial domination both violently and non-violently in the early twentieth century, supporting state health and national integration projects in the early post-colonial era, and in the last decade of the century, using their performances to buttress the rhetoric of Hindu nationalists as these groups rose to power. By performing in regional idioms with rich associations for Maharashtrian congregations, singers of rāshtrīya kīrtan use music to combine political and religious signs in ways that seem natural and desirable, and as a result effectively promote 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. The book is an essential resource for ethnomusicologists, as well as scholars of South Asian studies, religion, and political theory. [Verlagsinformation]

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Inhalt
Acknowledgements. ix
Notes on Transliteration and Orthography. xiii
About the Companion Website. xiv
1. Standing on Nārad's Mat: Nationalism and Hindu Performance in Western India. 3
PART I: MARATHI KĪRTAN AND MODERNITY BEFORE 1947
   2. Nāradīya Kīrtan for "Modern Educated Graduates". 21
   3. Rāṣṭrīya Kīrtan: Resisting Modernity, Devotionalizing Nationalism. 50
PART II: NATIONALIST KĪRTAN WITHIN AND BEYOND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE
   4. "From 'Self Rule' to 'Good Rule'": Nationalism and Kīrtan After Independence. 79
   5. The Re-Institutionalization of Marathi Kīrtan. 102
PART III: PERFORMING A HINDU NATION
   6. Performance, Genre, and Politics in Rāṣṭrīya Kīrtan. 135
   7. Sudhatai Dhamankar: Embedded Embodiments. 156
   8. Yogeshwar Upasani: The Collision of Genres and Collusion of Participants. 174
   9. Conclusion. 189
Notes. 195
References. 207
Glossary. 215
Index. 223

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Autorin
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. Faculty page.

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