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The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance

The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance

  • Author: Graves, Eben

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Contents

  • Accessing Audiovisual Materials
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Spelling and Transliteration
  • Notes on Representing Musical Sound
  • Notes on Dating Systems
  • Introduction: Kirtan's Influence Derives from Time
  • Part I: Genealogies of Kirtan
  • 1. Temporality and Devotional Performance in Bengal
  • 2. The Seeds of Kirtan: Histories and Imaginaries of Devotional Song in Early Modern Bengal
  • 3. Devotional Song Arrives in the City: Histories of Patronage and Images of the Devout Musician in the Colonial Period
  • 4. Institutional Pasts and Professional Futures: Temporalities of Instruction and Performance in Contemporary West Bengal
  • Part II: The Devotional Aesthetics of Musical Expansion
  • 5. Word-Pictures: Expansions of Mood and Meaning in Kirtan Song Texts
  • 6. Sonic Synchronies of Tal Theory
  • 7. The Divine Play of the Tax Collector: Musical Expansion, Embodied Response, and Didactic Storytelling in a Lila Kirtan
  • Part III: The Shrinking Markets for Expanding Songs
  • 8. The Marketplace of Music Festivals: Modern Social Time and Musical Labor
  • 9. Media Markets: Visualization and the Abstraction of Musical Time
  • 10. Conclusion: Kirtan Online
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index