Musicophilia in Mumbai - Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious

Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century, showing how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. On Not Being Able to Learn Music  1
1. "Yaa Nagari Mein Lakh Darwaza": Musicophilia and the Lingua Musica in Mumbai  19
2. Mehfil (Performance): The Spaces of Music  46
3. Deewaana (The Mad One): The Lover of Music  86
4. Taleem: Pedagogy and the Performing Subject  128
5. Nearness as Distance, or Distance as Nearness  162
Afterword  181
Glossary  199
Notes  205
Selected Bibliography  227
Index  235

About the author

Tejaswini Niranjana is Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and author of Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad, also published by Duke University Press, and Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context.

Summary

Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century, showing how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Tejaswini Niranjana
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781478006862
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0686-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Musikgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Indischer Subkontinent, MUSIC / History & Criticism, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology