They Sing the Wedding of God

An Ethnomusicological Study of the Mahadevji ka byavala as Performed by the Nath-Jogis of Alwar

John Napier (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7140-9 (ISBN)

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In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the Nath-Jogis, sing stories of kings who renounce their thrones to become wandering mendicants. They also sing of a god, Mahadeva, Shiva, who must abandon his world-renouncing life and marry, thus establishing the very caste that tells his story. This is the first detailed ethnomusicological study of the music of this caste, examining how the existential questions of the sung stories--of the conflict between loyalty to families or communities and the transcending desire to renounce the material world--are articulated in musical performances in which the caste's own ethnography is inscribed.

Discussing the relationship between the performed repertoire and the caste's identity, the contexts of performance and ways in which familiar stories are effectively retold, the book offers a transcription, translation and musical and ethnographic analysis of one performance, by Kishori Nath, and shows how the questions the performances project are not merely speculative acts of self-identification but also challenges to audiences to consider their own responses.

John Napier is a senior lecturer in musicology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. As well as publishing internationally, he has spent nearly two decades introducing students to the “life-changing wonders” of India’s many musics, as well as helping them better understand the joys of their own traditions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliterationviii

Preface

Introduction

One : Tonight You Will Hear the Wedding of God

Two : The Many Voices of the Jogi

Three : Singing the Wedding of God

Four : Why a God Should Marry

Five : A (Mis)Guided Search

Six : The Wedding

Seven : An Exceptional Performance, and a Contract with Tradition

Eight : Parvati Rebound?

Nine : Orientations, Mediations, Directions

Glossary

Appendix A—List of Performances and Recordings

Appendix B—Episodic Structure

Appendix C—Transcription of Thik 2

Appendix D—Repeated Melodies, Introduction of New Melodies, etc.

Appendix E—Single Melodies and Voicing

Appendix F—Doha and Voicing

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	153 photos, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-7864-7140-9 / 0786471409
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7140-9 / 9780786471409
Zustand	Neuware