Modernizing Composition

Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29471-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

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The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India’s relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Field, Garrett

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

Part One: The Colonial Era
1. Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World
2. Brothers of the Pure Sinhala Fraternity
3. Wartime Romance

Part Two: The Postcolonial Era
4. Divergent Standards of Excellence
5. For the People
6. Illusions to Disillusions

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Garrett Field is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Music at Ohio University.