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¬The¬ musical gift: sonic generosity in post-war Sri Lanka
Kategorie	Beschreibung
036a	XD-US
037b	eng
087q	978-0-19-091202-4
100	Sykes, Jim ¬[VerfasserIn]¬
331	¬The¬ musical gift
335	sonic generosity in post-war Sri Lanka
410	New York, NY
412	Oxford University Press
425	2018
425a	2018
433	1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 261 Seiten)
451b	Critical conjunctures in music & sound
540a	ISBN 978-0-19-091205-5
700b	\|780.95493
750	The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka’s music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by ethnic and religious difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that the genres we currently recognize as Sri Lanka’s esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity but were gifts to gods intended to foster protection and/or healing. Noting that the currently assumed link between music and identity helped produce the narratives of ethnic difference that drove Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983–2009), Sykes contends that the promotion of histories of cultural interaction, exchange, and respect for difference through musical giving has a role to play in post-war reconciliation. The Musical Gift includes a study of how NGOs used music to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, the first ethnography of the plight of musicians during the war in the Tamil-dominated north and of Sinhala Buddhist drummers in the south, and a theorization of the relations between musical gifts and commodities. Eschewing a strict binary between the gift and identity, Sykes claims that the world’s music history is largely a story of entanglement between these paradigms. Drawing on fieldwork conducted widely across Sri Lanka over a span of eleven years, The Musical Gift brings anthropology’s canonic literature on “the gift” into music studies fully for the first time, while engaging with anthropology’s “ontological turn” and the “new materialism” in religious studies.
902g	208884157 Sri Lanka
902s	209042346 Musik
902s	209112190 Singhalesen
902s	209207566 Tamilen
902s	209147822 Versöhnung
902z	\|Geschichte 2010-
012	515090212
081	Sykes, Jim: ¬The¬ musical gift
100	E-Book Oxford
125a	Elektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
655e	$uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912024.001.0001