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Punjab Sounds nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially bounded, the region only emerges in 'regioning', i.e., in words, gestures, objects and techniques that
do the region.
List of contents
Foreword by Ira Bhaskar (Professor (retd) of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India)1.
IntroductionRegioning Sound from South Asia
Vebhuti Duggal (Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) andRadha Kapuria (Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Durham University)I. Aural Signs of the Region2. One Transnation under a Groove: 'Chaal' and the Modern Punjabi Soundscape
Gibb Schreffler (Associate Professor of Music at Pomona College, California)3. Sound and Politics of Classical Music in West Punjab
G. Ali Shair (Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick)4. Mixing the legends-Changing Representations of Nostalgia in Diasporic Punjabi remix culture
Julia Szivak (Assistant Lecturer,Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest)II. Soundscapes of the Punjab5. Trinjan Audiotopias: Complaint, Desire, and the Bawdy in Punjabi Giddha Performance Practices
Ranbir K. Johal (Lecturer, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver) and Kiran K. Sunar (Assistant Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of British Columbia) 6. Folkloric Poetic Traditions and Gender Relations: An Ethnomusicological Study of Sithnian as a Celebratory Resistance in the Punjab
Sumera Saleem (Assistant Professor of Literature, University of Sargodha)7. Mapping Punjab Sounds: Two popular Songs about Agriculture and Pottery
Sakoon Singh (Assistant Professor of English, DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh) 8. Decoding Loudness: The Punjabi Soundscape in Bollywood
Shikha Jhingan (Associate Professor in Film Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) III. Mediating Regional Sound 9. Modernity, Modality, and Meaning: Technological Mediation of
¿abad K¿rtan at the Golden Temple
James Kirit Singh (PhD in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London)10.
Identity and affect: Exploring technology and the sonic in Dalit Music in Punjab
Radhika Kumar (Professor in Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi)11. "Love From India": YouTube Qaww¿l¿ as Affective Solidarity in India-Pakistan Relations
Thomas Graves (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Durham University)Afterword: Coda by Virinder Kalra (Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick)AcknowledgmentsIndex
About the author
Radha Kapuria is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Durham University, UK, and the author of
Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-
1947.
Vebhuti Duggal is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi, and Associate Editor of the journal
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies.
Summary
Punjab Sounds nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially bounded, the region only emerges in ‘regioning’, i.e., in words, gestures, objects and techniques that do the region.
