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

Name: The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance
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Author: "Eben Graves"
ISBN: 9780253064387

Eben Graves

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How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own musical careers.The Politics of Musical Time traces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kīrtan in the Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the shifting meanings and practices of devoti