Ways of Voice - Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond

"Ethnomusicological study of techniques of voice production in North India, examining the ways in which singers not only "have" voice but actively acquire, cultivate, and contest particular vocal dispositions"--

About the author

MATTHEW RAHAIM (Minneapolis, MN) is professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Minnesota; he is affiliate faculty in Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature and the program in Religious Studies. Rahaim is the author of Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music. He is also a performing Hindustani vocalist in the Gwalior lineage.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Rahaim
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780819579386
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7938-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 252 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Music / Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries