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Singing Across Divides

Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal

By (author) Anna Marie Stirr
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, United States
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 9th Nov 2017
Dimensions: w 164mm h 236mm d 21mm
Weight: 572g
ISBN-10: 019063197X
ISBN-13: 9780190631970
Barcode No: 9780190631970
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An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and accompanying dance, performed between men and women, with a primary focus on romantic love. The book tells the story of dohori's relationship with changing ideas of Nepal as a nation-state, and how different nationalist concepts of unity have incorporated marginality, in the intersectional arenas of caste, indigeneity, class, gender, and regional identity. Dohori gets at the heart of tensions around ethnic, caste, and gender difference, as it promotes potentially destabilizing musical and poetic interactions, love, sex, and marriage across these social divides. In the aftermath of Nepal's ten-year civil war, changing political realities, increased migration, and circulation of people, media and practices are redefining concepts of appropriate intimate relationships and their associated systems of exchange. Through multi-sited ethnography of performances, media production, circulation, reception, and the daily lives of performers and fans in Nepal and the UK, Singing Across Divides examines how people use dohori to challenge (and uphold) social categories, while also creating affective solidarities.

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"[T]his is a very stimulating and rigorously researched book, presenting a multi-faceted examination and analysis of this genre. It is a book about dohori itself, of course, and its spread beyond the rural areas to new contexts with new values. But it is also a wonderfully interconnected book about Nepal, politics and social and cultural change, from the intimate, individual, and emotional outwards." --MusiCultures