Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Note on Transliteration
List of Maps
Chapter One: Introduction (Richard K. Wolf)
Part I: Bodies and Instruments
Chapter Two: Women and Kandyan dance: Negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka (Susan A. Reed)
Chapter Three: Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music (Amanda Weidman)
Chapter Four: Local practice, global network: the guitar in India as a case study (Martin Clayton)
Part II: Spaces and Itineraries
Chapter Five: Constructing the local: Migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade (Gregory Booth)
Chapter Six: The princess of the musicians: R?ni Bh?ñiy?õi and the M?ngani?r of Western Rajasthan (Shubha Chaudhuri)
Chapter Seven: Music in Urban Space: Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley (Gert-Matthias Wegner)
Part III: Learning and Transmission
Chapter Eight: Disciple And preceptor/performer in Kerala (Rolf Groesbeck)
Chapter Nine: S?na ba s?na or "from father to son": Writing the culture of discipleship (egula Burckhardt Qureshi)
Chapter Ten: Handmade in Nepal (David Henderson)
Part IV: Theorizing Social Action
Chapter Eleven: Modes of theorizing in Iranian Khorasan (Stephen Blum)
Chapter Twelve: Zahirok: The musical base of Baloch minstrelsy (Sabir Badalkhan)
Chapter Thirteen: Varõams and vocalizations: The special status of some musical beginnings (Richard K. Wolf)
Glossary
Bibliography

About the Author

Richard K. Wolf is Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of the book The Black Cow's Footprint: Time, Space, and Music in the Lives of the Kotas of South India (Permanent Black, 2005 and University of Illinois Press, 2006), which was awarded the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Humanities, and Reciting Remembrance: Resonances of Popular Islam in South Asia (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).

Reviews

"Covers a great variety of music in India and beyond and is a welcome addition to the scarce literature on this vast area." --Choice
"An impressive collection of original and rigorously scholarly essays, exhibiting much of the conceptual depth, ethnographic breadth, and theoretical sophistication of contemporary socio-musical studies of South Asia and its environs."-Peter Manuel, Professor, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center
"This collection of case studies collaboratively addresses the diversity and significance of local knowledge, practice, and experience, and breaks new ground in documenting South Asian music and in understanding its relevance to humanity."-Richard Widdess, Professor of Musicology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"[A] stimulating collection of chapters that challenges and complements the globalization literature." --American Ethnologist