عنوان

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

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TL48125

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

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

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Justin Scarimbolo

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Marcus, Scott L.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Santa Barbara

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

627

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

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

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Music

Body granting the degree

University of California, Santa Barbara

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

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

Subject Term

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

Banks, David Edward

Marcus, Scott L.

Subdivision

Music

University of California, Santa Barbara

Call Number

1658214423; 3682973

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[Thesis]

276903

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