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Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka
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by Garrett FieldGarrett Field
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India’s relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520294714 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 03/22/2017 |
Series: | South Asia Across the Disciplines |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 230 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Garrett Field is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Music at Ohio University.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Translation and Transliteration xii
Introduction 1
Part 1 The Colonial Era
1 Nationalist Thought and the Sri Lankan World 19
2 Brothers of the Pure Sinhala Fraternity 34
3 Wartime Romance 56
Part 2 The Postcolonial Era
4 Divergent Standards of Excellence 77
5 For the People 99
6 Illusions to Disillusions 116
Conclusion 136
Notes 141
Bibliography 191
Index 203
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