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Brahmans Beyond Nationalism, Muslims Beyond Dominance: A Hidden History of North Indian Classical Music's Hinduization

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Brahmans Beyond Nationalism, Muslims Beyond Dominance: A Hidden History of North Indian Classical Music's Hinduization

[Thesis]

Justin Scarimbolo

Marcus, Scott L.

University of California, Santa Barbara

2014

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Committee members: Cooley, Timothy J.; Lipsitz, George

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-56857-8

Ph.D.

Music

University of California, Santa Barbara

2014

This dissertation challenges two key assumptions that structure nearly all historical accounts of modern North Indian classical music: (1) that Muslim musicians imposed a 'secretive' and 'jealously guarded' monopoly over the field from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and (2) that upper-caste Hindus eventually penetrated this monopoly only by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries under the protective umbrella of a nationalist musical reform movement. Both assumptions attempt to explain a demographic shift among musicians from a Muslim to a Hindu majority over the twentieth century. Though recent scholarship has begun to suggest a more complex reality, most accounts still presume a neat sequence of two consecutive 'dominances' characterized by intrinsic cultural essences: the first, (intransigent, insular and pre-modern) Muslim; and the second, (nationalistic, communalistic and modern) Hindu. Nearly all of this research, moreover, is based on a limited set of data generally dated no earlier than the 1870s and thus within the nationalist period of musical reform.

Cultural anthropology; Music; South Asian Studies

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Brahman;Ethnomusicology;Hinduization;Hindustani;Historical ethnomusicology;Music

Banks, David Edward

Marcus, Scott L.

Music

University of California, Santa Barbara

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