TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fiol,Stefan Patrick
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility 
T2  - Folklore studies in a multicultural world
SN  - 9780252099786
AV  - DS432.N46 
U1  - 954.96 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Urbana, IL
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Nepali people
KW  - Music
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Népalais
KW  - Musique
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Bhalara (Nepal)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Nepal
KW  - Bhalara
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-223) and index; ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Geneologies of the Folk Concept in Colonial Uttarakhand""; ""2 Mohan Upreti and the Assimilation of Folk Music in Nehruvian India""; ""3 Turning Dying Folk into Living Folk: The Musical Activism of Narendra Singh Negi""; ""4 The Folk Sound without the Folk Body: Sohan Lal and the Rhizophonics of Dhol-Damaun""; ""5 Professional Female Singers and the Gendering of Folk""; ""6 The Goddess Plugged In: Pritam Bhartwan and the Commodification of Possession Rituals""; ""Conclusion""""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""
N2  - "Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the "folk" designation can alternately identify a universal stage of humanity, or denote alterity and subordination. Fiol explores the lives and work of Gahrwali artists who produce folk music. These musicians create art as both a discursive idea and a set of expressive practices across strikingly different historical and cultural settings. Juxtaposing performance contexts in Himalayan villages with Delhi recording studios, Fiol shows how the practices have emerged within and between sites of contrasting values and expectations. Throughout, he presents the varying perspectives and complex lives of the upper-caste, upper-class, male performers spearheading the processes of folklorization. But he also charts their resonance with, and collision against, the perspectives of the women and hereditary musicians most affected by the processes. Expertly observed, Recasting Folk in the Himalayas offers an engaging immersion in a little-studied musical milieu"--Back cover
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