Overview
"Over the past four decades, the ""globalized"" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions of South Asia have remained relatively unexplored.Theorizing the Local provides a challenging and compelling counterperspective to the ""globalized,"" arguing for the value of comparative microstudies that are not concerned primarily with the flow of capital and neoliberal politics. What does it mean for musical activities to be local in an increasingly interconnected world? To what extent can theoretical activity be localized to the very acts of making music, interacting, and composing?Theorizing the Local offers glimpses into rich musical worlds of south and west Asia, worlds which have never before been presented in a single volume. The authors cross the traditional borders of scholarship and region, exploring in unmatched detail a vast array of musical practices and significant ethnographic discoveries-from Nepal to India, India to Sri Lanka, Pakistan to Iran. Enriched by audio and video tracks on an extensive companion Web site, Theorizing the Local is an important study of South Asian musical traditions that offers a broader understanding of 21st-century music of the world."
Full Product Details
Author: Richard K. Wolf (Professor of Music, Department of Music (Ethnomusicology), Professor of Music, Department of Music (Ethnomusicology), Harvard University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.612kg
ISBN: 9780195331370
ISBN 10: 0195331370
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 22 October 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This is the first anthology on South Asian music that covers a broad range of genres and contexts brought together under a timely theoretical framework... The chapters bring out the complex differences within local practices, patterns of interconnection across cultural boundaries, and histories of cross-cultural exchange... This is a unique set of essays framed by an important call to reinvest in the theoretical understandings of the local meanings of music and their global connections that South Asian area studies have to offer. Zoe Sherinian, The Journal of Asian Studies 70/1
An impressive collection of original and rigorously scholarly essays, exhibiting much of the conceptual depth, ethnographic breadth, and theoretical sophistication of contemporary socio-musical studies of South Asia and its environs. -Peter Manuel, Professor, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center<br> This collection of case studies collaboratively addresses the diversity and significance of local knowledge, practice, and experience, and breaks new ground in documenting South Asian music and in understanding its relevance to humanity. -Richard Widdess, Professor of Musicology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London<br>
Author Information
Richard K. Wolf is Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of the book The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India (Permanent Black, 2005 and University of Illinois Press, 2006), which was awarded the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Humanities, and Reciting Remembrance: Resonances of Popular Islam in South Asia (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).
