Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947 Kindle Edition
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| Management number | 220500158 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | US$49.20 | Model Number | 220500158 | ||
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This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan. Read more
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| Format | Print Replica |
| ISBN13 | 978-0192692917 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 64.8 MB |
| Page Flip | Not Enabled |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford |
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| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | April 15, 2023 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
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