Punjab Sounds -

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Résumé :

Foreword by Ira Bhaskar (Professor (retd) of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India)

1. Introduction

Regioning Sound from South Asia

Vebhuti Duggal (Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) and

Radha Kapuria (Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Durham University)

I. Aural Signs of the Region

2. One Transnation under a Groove: 'Chaal' and the Modern Punjabi Soundscape

Gibb Schreffler (Associate Professor of Music at Pomona College, California)

3. Sound and Politics of Classical Music in West Punjab

G. Ali Shair (Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick)

4. Mixing the legends-Changing Representations of Nostalgia in Diasporic Punjabi remix culture

Julia Szivak (Assistant Lecturer,Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest)

II. Soundscapes of the Punjab

5. Trinjan Audiotopias: Complaint, Desire, and the Bawdy in Punjabi Giddha Performance Practices

Ranbir K. Johal (Lecturer, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver) and Kiran K. Sunar (Assistant Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of British Columbia)

6. Folkloric Poetic Traditions and Gender Relations: An Ethnomusicological Study of Sithnian as a Celebratory Resistance in the Punjab

Sumera Saleem (Assistant Professor of Literature, University of Sargodha)

7. Mapping Punjab Sounds: Two popular Songs about Agriculture and Pottery

Sakoon Singh (Assistant Professor of English, DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

8. Decoding Loudness: The Punjabi Soundscape in Bollywood

Shikha Jhingan (Associate Professor in Film Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

III. Mediating Regional Sound

9. Modernity, Modality, and Meaning: Technological Mediation of ?abad K?rtan at the Golden Temple

James Kirit Singh (PhD in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London)

10. Identity and affect: Exploring technology and the sonic in Dalit Music in Punjab

Radhika Kumar (Professor in Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi)

11. Love From India: YouTube Qaww?l? as Affective Solidarity in India-Pakistan Relations

Thomas Graves (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Durham University)

Afterword: Coda by Virinder Kalra (Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick)

Acknowledgments

Index