Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 296 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Also issued in print and PDF version
ISBN:
0822394790
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9780822394792
Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016
Content:
This book is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings. Smita Tewari Jassal uses these songs to explore how ideas of caste, gender, sexuality, labor, and power may be strengthened, questioned, and fine-tuned through music. At the heart of the book is a library of songs, in their original Bhojpuri and in English translation, framed by Jassal's insights into the complexities of gender and power. The significance of these folksongs, Jassal argues, lies in their suggesting and hinting at themes, rather than directly addressing them: women sing what they often cannot talk about. Women's lives, their feelings, their relationships, and their social and familial bonds are persuasively presented in song. For the ethnographer, the songs offer an entry into the everyday cultures of marginalized groups of women who have rarely been the focus of systematic analytical inquiry
Content:
The daily grind -- Singing bargains -- Biyah / Biraha : emotions in a rite of passage -- Sita's trials -- When war is marriage -- Taking liberties
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Also issued in print and PDF version.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822351307
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822351196
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822351306
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822351191
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jassal, Smita Tewari, 1954 - Unearthing gender Durham : Duke Univ. Press, 2012 ISBN 9780822351191
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822351306
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822351196
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822351307
Language:
English
Keywords:
Uttar Pradesh
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Hindi
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Volkslied
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Bhojpurī
URL:
View this content on Open Research Library
URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
