Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious by

Description: Musicophilia in Mumbai by Tejaswini Niranjana Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century, showing how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers as well as her own personal experiences as a student of Hindustani classical music, Niranjana shows how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening that brought together people of diverse social and linguistic backgrounds. This culture produced modern subjects Niranjana calls musicophiliacs, whose subjectivity was grounded in a social rather than an individualistic context. By attending concerts, learning instruments, and performing at home and in various urban environments, musicophiliacs embodied forms of modernity that were distinct from those found in the West. In tracing the relationship between musical practices and the formation of the social subject, Niranjana opens up new ways to think about urbanity, subjectivity, culture, and multiple modernities. Author Biography Tejaswini Niranjana is Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and author of Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad, also published by Duke University Press, and Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction. On Not Being Able to Learn Music 1 1. "Yaa Nagari Mein Lakh Darwaza": Musicophilia and the Lingua Musica in Mumbai 19 2. Mehfil (Performance): The Spaces of Music 46 3. Deewaana (The Mad One): The Lover of Music 86 4. Taleem: Pedagogy and the Performing Subject 128 5. Nearness as Distance, or Distance as Nearness 162 Afterword 181 Glossary 199 Notes 205 Selected Bibliography 227 Index 235 Review "Tejaswini Niranjanas beautifully written book gives us a glimpse into the ways in which Hindustani classical music enables distinct performances of modernity in a postcolonial context. She takes us on a fascinating journey across performative spaces while powerfully and subtly portraying the lives and struggles of musicians and showing how gender, caste, class, and religious identity refract their subjectivities. I greatly appreciate and am moved by the material she presents in this book." -- Purnima Mankekar, author of * Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality *"In her highly accessible, enjoyable, and immensely informative book, Tejaswini Niranjana—an astute and sympathetic cultural theorist—weaves musical genealogies and musician biographies into rich descriptions of the lives, emotions, and lived spaces of musicians and their audiences. Her centering of enjoyment, pleasure, and love in the study of Hindustani music is refreshing. Beautifully written, Musicophilia in Mumbai will set the standard for new waves of scholarship on Hindustani music and Indias other classical traditions." -- Anna Morcom, author of * Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion *"A fascinating journey across the city… Musicophilia in Mumbai will, undoubtedly, set the standard for more scholarship on Hindustani music as also Indias other gharanas. Even if the study is deeply localized and empirically distinct, similar patterns can be traced elsewhere in South Asia. The book suggests that the relationship between cultural practice and the formation of the social subject can be expressed in many ways and many contexts—especially in the non-west." -- Bhaskar Parichha * KITAAB *"For the discerning consumer, the current proliferation of texts on and about Hindustani Classical Music is a munificence worth exploring. Tejaswini Niranjanas Musicophilia in Mumbai ought to occupy a prominent position within this largesse, thanks to its combination of excellent scholarship, accessible language, and sagacious approach." -- S.D. Chaudhuri * Telegraph India *"An important text for anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and historians seeking to understand modernity in urban India. Moreover, Niranjanas careful attention to the ways that actual people construe urban sociality, produce subjectivity, and construct modernity should recommend it to a wider audience interested in global cities." -- David Strohl * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Musicophilia in Mumbai will likely be most interesting to scholars in the fields of South Asian studies, performance studies, and ethnomusicology. It will also be useful to those seeking to understand how the organization of urban space impacts social relations through musical performance.… Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, Niranjanas book is a multilayered resource connecting the past and present of this dynamic art form." -- Rehanna Kheshgi * Journal of Asian Studies *"The remembered and physical worlds of musical life in Bombay city over the long 20th century are well portrayed. . . . I recommend [Musicophilia in Mumbai] highly for those who love Indian music." -- Andrew Alter * Asian Studies Review * Review Quote "The remembered and physical worlds of musical life in Bombay city over the long 20th century are well portrayed. . . . I recommend [ Musicophilia in Mumbai ] highly for those who love Indian music." Details ISBN1478008180 Author Tejaswini Niranjana Publisher Duke University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1478008180 ISBN-13 9781478008187 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States DEWEY 780.954792 Pages 256 Publication Date 2020-02-28 Short Title Musicophilia in Mumbai Language English UK Release Date 2020-02-28 AU Release Date 2020-02-28 NZ Release Date 2020-02-28 US Release Date 2020-02-28 Illustrations 48 illustrations Alternative 9781478006862 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131536169;

Price: 57.74 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2025-01-31T15:31:33.000Z

Shipping Cost: 9.65 AUD