The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka

ISBN-13: 9780190912024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Jim Sykes

Opis

The Musical Gift tells Sri Lankan music history as a story of exchange between humans and nonhumans, and between human communities defined by difference. Sykes argues that histories of sonic generosity have a role to play in fostering reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka.

Recenzje

As assertions about music and the state become increasingly cliché, The Musical Gift provides a timely critique of the "music and identity episteme." Focusing on acts of musical giving, the author provides a wide-ranging study of interpenetrating musical histories in Sri Lanka - shared histories that have implications for post-war reconciliation. Music scholars, anthropologists, and South Asianists may all find something useful and surprising in this exciting new work.

O autorze

Jim Sykes is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in sound and music studies, religious studies, labor history/capitalism, and conflict studies, focusing to date on Sri Lanka and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Remapping Sound Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). He is also a drummer who has recorded and toured widely with numerous experimental and indie rock groups.