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Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern

Autor Amanda J. Weidman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2006
While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic and rhythmic principles of raga and tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an early twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial modernity, nationalist ideology, and South Indian regional politics. As Amanda Weidman demonstrates, in order for Karnatic music to be considered classical, it needed to be modeled on Western classical music, with its system of notation, composers, compositions, conservatories, and concerts, but also to remain distinctively Indian. Weidman argues that these contradictory desires led to the emergence of a particular “politics of voice,” in which the voice came to stand for authenticity and Indianness.Combining ethnographic observation derived from her experience as a student and performer of South Indian music and close readings of archival materials, Weidman traces the emergence of this politics of voice through compelling analyses of the relationship between vocal sound and instrumental imitation, conventions of performance and staging, the status of women as performers, debates about language and music, and the relationship between oral tradition and technologies of printing and sound reproduction. In this sustained exploration of the way “voice” is elaborated as a trope of modern subjectivity, national identity, and cultural authenticity, Weidman provides a model for thinking about the voice in anthropological and historical terms. At the same time, she makes a crucial contribution to the study of modernity, showing that modernity is characterized as much by particular ideas about orality, aurality, and the voice as it is by regimes of visuality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822336204
ISBN-10: 0822336200
Pagini: 349
Ilustrații: 34 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

“Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern is a brilliant critique of the emergence of Karnatic music as a ‘classical’ art during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Situating her account within modernist and colonialist discourses of the authentic subject, Amanda J. Weidman explores a broad range of sources, from little-known early-twentieth-century Indian texts (in Tamil, Sanskrit, and Telugu) to contemporary studies in anthropology and musicology to feminist and media theory.”—Katherine Bergeron, author of Decadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes“Amanda J. Weidman brilliantly turns the tables on ideologies of voice in challenging us to envision music as constituting technologies for producing voices. Ethnomusicology, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical histories of technology all take a step forward as a genealogy of Indian ‘classical’ music engenders new insights into colonialism, nationalism, gender, traditionality, and modernity.”—Charles L. Briggs, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Notă biografică

Amanda J. Weidman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.

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"Amanda J. Weidman brilliantly turns the tables on ideologies of voice in challenging us to envision music as constituting technologies for "producing" voices. Ethnomusicology, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical histories of technology all take a step forward as a genealogy of Indian 'classical' music engenders new insights into colonialism, nationalism, gender, traditionality, and modernity."--Charles L. Briggs, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Cuprins

List of Illustrations xii
Acknowledgements ix
Note on Transliteration of Spelling xvii
Introduction 1
1. Gone Native?: Travels of the Violin in South India 25
2. From the Palace to the Street: Staging “Classical” Music 59
3. Gender and the Politics of Voice 111
4. Can the Subaltern Sing?: Music, Language, and the Politics of Voice 150
5. A Writing Lesson: Musicology and the Birth of the Composer 192
6. Fantasic Fidelities 245
Afterword: Modernity and the Voice 286
Notes 291
Works Cited 325
Index 343

Descriere

Reveals how Karnatic music emerged as India’s classical music through a particular politics of voice that developed in the crucible of colonial modernity, nationalist ideology, and South Indian regional politics.