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Mountainous Sound Spaces Listening to History and Music in the Uttarakhand Himalayas Andrew Alter Andrew Alter teaches in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. NEW NEW NEW NEW Price ` 595.00 only Size : 150mm x 230mm Pages : xviii+180pp Year : 2014 Binding : Hardback ISBN : 9789382993322 • • • • •
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Mountainous Sound Spaces: Listening to History and Music in the Uttarakhand Himalayas
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Mountainous Sound SpacesListening to History and Music in theUttarakhand HimalayasAndrew AlterAndrew Alter teaches in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studiesat Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
NEWNEWNEWNEW
Price ` 595.00 only
Size : 150mm x 230mm
Pages : xviii+180pp
Year : 2014
Binding : Hardback
ISBN : 9789382993322
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This book presents a number of stories aboutthe musical practice in specific regions in theCentral Himalayas. The author describespeople and the sounds they produce andattempts to imagine those sounds in ways thatreflect histories, conventional attitudes,geographical spaces and mythical worlds.
CONTENTSList of figures
List of tables and musical examples
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
MountainousSound SpacesListening to Historyand Music in theUttarakhand HimalayasAndrew Alter
1. Echoes of Colonialism: Bagpipes in theHimalayas
2. Echoes of a Royal Heritage: Vestiges ofNaubat
3. Possession and Performance: SoundingOut the Epic Worlds of Heroes and Gods
4. Worlds of Sound: Revisiting theParameters of Oral Tradition
5. Flutes, Sprites and MountainousGeographies
6. Drum Strokes, Syllables and RhythmicPatterns
7. The Significance of Tantric Sects forDrum Practice in the Central Himalayas
8. Playing History: Sounding Out the EpicWorlds of Heroes and Gods
9. The Legacy of Garhwali Cassettes:Remembering the Pre-Digital Age ofMusic Commodification
Epilogue: Listening to an UttarakhandiHimalayan SpaceBibliographyIndex
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