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  • The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music

    Re-envisioning a National Tradition

    by Anna Morcom ...
    The Multiplicities of Hindustani Music explores the dynamic social and economic world of North Indian raga-based music over the twentieth century and into the present day. By approaching Hindustani music from beyond geographical and social centers, author Anna Morcom challenges the conventional framing of Hindustani music as a singular “classical” tradition, tracing its historical entanglements ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema

    by Anna Morcom ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence felt strongly in many global contexts. Hindi film songs have been described on the one hand as highly standardized and on the other as highly eclectic. Anna Morcom addresses many of the paradoxes eccentricities and myths of not just Hindi film songs but ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia

    Craftspeople and Performers

    Edited by Anna Morcom, Neelam Raina ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and the ways in which they have shifted and changed in different historical eras and different political, economic, and social formations up to the present. In particular, through this focus on labour and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Resistant Hybridities

    New Narratives of Exile Tibet

    by Shelly Bhoil, Anurima Chanda, Julie Fletcher, Enrique Galvan-Alvarez, Kristen Guest, Martin Kovan, Mara Matta, Anna Morcom, Matilda Perks0, Jill J. Tan1, Tatsuya Yamamoto2, Kalsang Yangzom3 ...
    With its analytic focus on the cultural production by Tibetans-in-exile, this volume examines contemporary Tibetan fiction, poetry, music, art, cinema, pamphlets, testimony, and memoir. The twelve case studies highlight the themes of Tibetans’ self-representation, politicized national consciousness, religious and cultural heritages, and resistance to the forces of colonization. This book ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    by Margaret E. Walker ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a ... Read more

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  • Dhol

    Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab

    by Gibb Schreffler ...
    An icon of global Punjabi culture, the dhol drum inspires an unbridled love for the instrument far beyond its application to regional vernacular music. Yet the identities of dhol players within their local communities and the broadly conceived Punjabi nation remain obscure.Gibb Schreffler draws on two decades of research to investigate dhol's place among the cultural formations within Punjabi ... Read more

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  • Delhi's Changing Built Environment

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    Series series Routledge Studies in International Real Estate
    The rapid expansion, urban form and development of the built environment in the world’s second most populous city, Delhi, has been the consequence of social, political, economic, planning and architectural traditions that have shaped the city over thousands of years. Whilst seamless at times, these traditions have often resulted in the fragmented development of the city’s built environment. This ... Read more

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  • Rendering Houses in Ladakh

    by Sophie Day ...
    Series series Home
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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

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    Series series Campbell Lectures
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  • India

    5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

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  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    by Kaiwan Mehta ...
    Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as Bhuleshwar, has remained a residential and religious hub as before, while thriving as the city’s essential ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in South Asia

    Edited by Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... Read more

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