Siren song : understanding Pakistan through its women singers /

Soumis par Joseph Hafner le 17 Mars, 2021 - 22:05

Type de publication:

Book

Auteurs:

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia,

Source:

Oxford University Press,, Karachi, Pakistan, p.xxxviii, 211 pages : (2020)

ISBN:

0190700548

Numéro d'appel:

ML82

Mots-clés:

(OCoLC)fst01030444, (OCoLC)fst01178528, (OCoLC)fst01919811, fast, Music, Pakistan., Social aspects, Social aspects., Social conditions., Women singers, Women singers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.Introduction: Methodological framing and background information -- The respectable courtesan : reading Malka Pukhraj's postcolonial performative memoir, Song sung true : introducing the respectable courtesan -- Roshan Ara Begum : performing classical music, gender, and Muslim nationalism in Pakistan -- Feminist mediations : the sacred and the secular in three Pakistani female singers' oeuvre -- Reshma and folk music : inventing a tradition -- Border transgressors : from popular war songs to disco-pop, 1960-1980s -- Unsettling the nation : Coke Studio and the new divas of Sufi-pop in contemporary Pakistan -- Epilogue: In media res -- Appendices: Suraiya Multanikar ; Tahira Syed ; Tina Sani ; Hadiqa Kiani ; Aliya Rasheed -- Singing past silence: A personal coda.