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The Musical Gift : Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka / Jim Sykes.

By: Series: Critical conjunctures in music & soundPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190912024
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.95493 SYK 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3917.S75 S94 2018
Contents:
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.
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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.