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Sykes, Jim, 1976-

The Musical Gift : Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka / Jim Sykes. - xxi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Critical conjunctures in music & sound . - Critical conjunctures in music & sound. .

Part I. Finding musical gifts. Introduction :
For a musicology of karma and reincarnation ;
1. Sonic generosity : Beyond secularism and conflict in music studies;
Part II. Musical giving as protection and destruction. Checkpoint : Musical gifts and the movement of ghosts ;
2. Beravåa secrecy and the hoarding of musical gifts ;
3. Sri Lankan Tamil musical giving : an introduction ;
4. The cartography of culture zones : Social relations and the converstion of sonic money;
Part III. The discursive erasure of musical giving;
5. Beyond the musicology of disaster : War, tsunami, post-war ;
Checkpoint : The Malays who sing in six languages ;
Checkpoint : Sound as commodity (identity) versus sound as gift (Identity + relations) ;
6. The island space : Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas;
Part IV. Rediscovering musical giving;
Checkpoint : Re-connecting Sinhala and Tamil musical cultures ;
Conclusion : The regulation of happines in post-war Sri Lanka.

ISBN: 9780190912024

LCCN: 2018008557

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Music--Social Aspects--Sri Lanka.
Music--History and Criticism.--Sri Lanka

LC Class. No.: ML3917.S75 / S94 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 780.95493 SYK