The Musical Gift : Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka / Jim Sykes.

By:

Sykes, Jim, 1976- [author.]

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780190912024

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

780.95493 SYK 23

LOC classification:

ML3917.S75 S94 2018

Contents:

Part I. Finding musical gifts. Introduction : For a musicology of karma and reincarnation ; 1. Sonic generosity : Beyond secularism and conflict in music studies; Part II. Musical giving as protection and destruction. Checkpoint : Musical gifts and the movement of ghosts ; 2. Beravåa secrecy and the hoarding of musical gifts ; 3. Sri Lankan Tamil musical giving : an introduction ; 4. The cartography of culture zones : Social relations and the converstion of sonic money; Part III. The discursive erasure of musical giving; 5. Beyond the musicology of disaster : War, tsunami, post-war ; Checkpoint : The Malays who sing in six languages ; Checkpoint : Sound as commodity (identity) versus sound as gift (Identity + relations) ; 6. The island space : Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas; Part IV. Rediscovering musical giving; Checkpoint : Re-connecting Sinhala and Tamil musical cultures ; Conclusion : The regulation of happines in post-war Sri Lanka.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	Anthropology Section	780.95493 SYK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		38709

Part I. Finding musical gifts. Introduction :
For a musicology of karma and reincarnation ;
1. Sonic generosity : Beyond secularism and conflict in music studies;
Part II. Musical giving as protection and destruction. Checkpoint : Musical gifts and the movement of ghosts ;
2. Beravåa secrecy and the hoarding of musical gifts ;
3. Sri Lankan Tamil musical giving : an introduction ;
4. The cartography of culture zones : Social relations and the converstion of sonic money;
Part III. The discursive erasure of musical giving;
5. Beyond the musicology of disaster : War, tsunami, post-war ;
Checkpoint : The Malays who sing in six languages ;
Checkpoint : Sound as commodity (identity) versus sound as gift (Identity + relations) ;
6. The island space : Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas;
Part IV. Rediscovering musical giving;
Checkpoint : Re-connecting Sinhala and Tamil musical cultures ;
Conclusion : The regulation of happines in post-war Sri Lanka.

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