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020 _a9780195670813 (hbk.)
035 _a(OCoLC)57639074
040 _aBLR
_beng
_erda
082 0 4 _223
_a306.48420954 BOO
_b021541
100 1 _aBooth, Gregory D.,
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aBrass baja :
_bstories from the world of Indian wedding bands /
_cby Gregory D. Booth
264 1 _aOxford University Press :
_bNew Delhi,
_c2005
300 _aviii, 335 pages :
_billustrations, music ;
_c23 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 316-322) and index.
505 _aIntroduction -- pt. 1. Contemporary and historical ethnographies of a processional music trade -- Identity, caste, and family -- Māliks and bandsmen -- social and professional hierarchies -- Careers, space, location, and movement -- pt. 2. Sounds, sights, practice, and performance -- Ensembles and fashion -- the flow and change of meaning -- The practice of processions and processional music -- The wedding band repertoire -- Practices of transmission and performance -- Conclusion : the forefront of change -- Appendix: Musical transcriptions.
520 _a"This book is a detailed and colourful study of India's wedding bands. The volume argues that while music performed by wedding bands help generate emotions of ecstasy and joy, the bandsmen who play it are in the fringes of the social events they herald. Musically and socially, and by birth and profession, bandsmen at weddings are ascribed low social status." "The volume provides the reader with an image of the reality of professional life in South Asia, and the processes of change in the world of Indian processional music - the stark social and economic gulf between musicians and their patrons. It will be of interest to an academic audience in anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, and music as well as to a wider audience of informed general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 _aMusic
_xSocial aspects
_zIndia.
650 0 _aMusicians
_zIndia.
650 0 _aBrass bands
_zIndia.
650 0 _aWedding music
_xHistory and criticism.
_zIndia
651 _2gnd
_aIndien
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_cBK
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