Musical Resilience - Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert

About the author

SHALINI AYYAGARI (Pittsburgh, PA) is an ethnomusicologist who works across the fields of musical culture, South Asian studies, critical ethnography, and development studies. She is an Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of Pittsburgh.

Summary

In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India.

Product details

• Authors: Shalini R Ayyagari, Shalini R. Ayyagari
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9780819500106
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-0010-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 152 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: 24 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Series: Music / Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory