'Performing’ Nature : Ecology and the Arts in South Asia (Hardcover)

Foreword. Introduction: Ecology, Music and Community?Exploring Performance in South Asia?1. Music and Intermediality in Trans-Border Performances: Ecological Responses in Patachitra and Manasamangal?2. ‘Nature’ in the ?humr? Genre as Performed by Some Female Exponents of the P?rab A?g: Liminality, Identity and Resistance?3. Is There Singing in the Time of Crisis? Sounding Flood Songs of Coastal and Riverine Malabar in the Indian Ocean?4. Rain of Life, Rain of Music: Music as Life Power in Indian Thought and Contemporary Musical Traditions?5. Singing the River in Punjab: Poetry, Performance and Folklore?6. The Changing Ecology of the Kolkata Tanpura?7. The Changing Landscape of Punjab in Bollywood Film Songs?8. Choirs on the Coast: Impact of COVID-19 on Musical Pedagogy and Festivals.?Afterword

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