Punjab Sounds

In and Beyond the Region
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-52518-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Punjab Sounds nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially bounded, the region only emerges in ‘regioning’, i.e., in words, gestures, objects, and techniques that do the region. Regioning sound reveals the relationship between sound and the region in three interlinked ways: in doing, knowing, and feeling the region through sound.

The volume covers several musical genres of the Punjab region, including within its geographical remit the Punjabi diaspora and east and west Punjab. It also provides new understandings of the role that ephemeral cultural expressions, especially music and sound, play in the formulation of Punjabi identity. Featuring contributions from scholars across North America, South Asia, Europe, and the UK, it brings together diverse perspectives. The chapters use a range of different methods, ranging from computational analysis and ethnography to close textual analysis, demonstrating some of the ways in which research on music and sound can be carried out.

The chapters will be relevant for anyone working on Punjab’s music, including the Punjabi diaspora, music, and sound in the Global South. Moreover, it will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the following areas: ethnomusicology, cultural studies, film studies, music studies, South Asian studies, Punjab studies, history, and sound studies, among others.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapuria, Radha

Duggal, Vebhuti

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Ira Bhaskar (Professor (retd) of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India)

1. Introduction

Regioning Sound from South Asia

Vebhuti Duggal (Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) and

Radha Kapuria (Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Durham University)

I. Aural Signs of the Region

2. One Transnation under a Groove: ‘Chaal’ and the Modern Punjabi Soundscape

Gibb Schreffler (Associate Professor of Music at Pomona College, California)

3. Sound and Politics of Classical Music in West Punjab

G. Ali Shair (Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick)

4. Mixing the legends–Changing Representations of Nostalgia in Diasporic Punjabi remix culture

Julia Szivak (Assistant Lecturer,Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest)

II. Soundscapes of the Punjab

5. Trinjan Audiotopias: Complaint, Desire, and the Bawdy in Punjabi Giddha Performance Practices

Ranbir K. Johal (Lecturer, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver) and Kiran K. Sunar (Assistant Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of British Columbia)

6. Folkloric Poetic Traditions and Gender Relations: An Ethnomusicological Study of Sithnian as a Celebratory Resistance in the Punjab

Sumera Saleem (Assistant Professor of Literature, University of Sargodha)

7. Mapping Punjab Sounds: Two popular Songs about Agriculture and Pottery

Sakoon Singh (Assistant Professor of English, DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

8. Decoding Loudness: The Punjabi Soundscape in Bollywood

Shikha Jhingan (Associate Professor in Film Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

III. Mediating Regional Sound

9. Modernity, Modality, and Meaning: Technological Mediation of Sabad Kirtan at the Golden Temple

James Kirit Singh (PhD in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London)

10. Identity and affect: Exploring technology and the sonic in Dalit Music in Punjab

Radhika Kumar (Professor in Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi)

11. “Love From India”: YouTube Qawwali as Affective Solidarity in India-Pakistan Relations

Thomas Graves (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Durham University)

Afterword: Coda by Virinder Kalra (Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick)

Acknowledgments

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Radha Kapuria is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Durham University, UK, and the author of Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947.

Vebhuti Duggal is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi, and Associate Editor of the journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies.