Recasting Folk in the Himalayas
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arguments about contemporary Indian folk music
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ethnography of Garhwali folk music
ethnography of Kumaoni folk music
folk artist
folk music
folk religion
Folklorization
Garhwal Himalayas
Garhwali folk musicians
Garhwali musical practices
Garhwali performers
ideology and folk music in Uttarakhand
Indian People’s Theatre Association
influences on Garhwali music
jagar rituals
Kumaon Himalayas
Kumaoni folk musicians
Kumaoni musical practices
Kumaoni performers
Language_English
Meena Rana
modernist reform
Mohan Upreti
music industry
Narendra Singh Negi
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Pritam Bhartwan
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Ramlila
recording of Uttarakhand folk music
regionalism
Shilpkar
softlaunch
Sohan Lal
spirit possession
traditional music in Garhwal Himalayas
upper-caste male performers of Uttarakhand folk music
Uttarakhand
vernacular music
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- ISBN 9780252041204
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the œfolk designation can alternately identify a universal stage of humanity, or denote alterity and subordination. Fiol explores the lives and work of Gahrwali artists who produce folk music. These musicians create art as both a discursive idea and as a set of expressive practices across strikingly different historical and cultural settings. Juxtaposing performance contexts in Himalayan villages with Delhi recording studios, Fiol shows how the practices have emerged within and between sites of contrasting values and expectations. Throughout, Fiol presents the varying perspectives and complex lives of the upper-caste, upper-class, male performers spearheading the processes of folklorization. But he also charts their resonance with, and collision against, the perspectives of the women and hereditary musicians most affected by the processes. Expertly observed, Recasting Folk in the Himalayas offers an engaging immersion in a little-studied musical milieu.
Stefan Fiol is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Cincinnati.
