Musical resilience : performing patronage in the Indian Thar desert / Shalini R. Ayyagari. by Ayyagari, Shalini R., 1978-

Subjects: “…Music Social aspects India Rajasthan.…”
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Singing the classical, voicing the modern : the postcolonial politics of music in South India / Amanda J. Weidman. by Weidman, Amanda J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Travels of the violin in South India -- From the palace to the street : staging "classical" music -- Gender and the politics of voice -- Can the subaltern sing? …”
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Ways of voice : vocal striving and moral contestation in North India and beyond / Matthew Rahaim. by Rahaim, Matthew

Subjects: “…Singing India, North.…”
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Behind the curtain : making music in Mumbai's film studios / Gregory D. Booth. by Booth, Gregory D.

Subjects: “…Motion picture music Production and direction India Mumbai History.…”
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Focus by Sarrazin, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Understanding Indian Music -- Chapter 1 India in Musical and Cultural Perspective -- Identity and Indian Music -- Linguistic Identity -- Indian Environments -- Geography -- Sacred Geography -- The Monsoon as Inspiration and Devastation -- Cultural, Musical, and Social History of India -- Indian Diversity and Identity -- Gender and Genre -- Bhangra -- Punjabi Women's Songs -- Hijra Identity, Origins, and Musical Associations…”
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Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology / Zoe C. Sherinian. by Sherinian, Zoe C.

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Echoes from Dharamsala : music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community / Keila Diehl. by Diehl, Keila

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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The Grammar of Carnatic Music. by Vijayakrishnan, K. G.

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Musicking bodies : gesture and voice in Hindustani music / Matthew Rahaim. by Rahaim, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…A History of Moving and Singing in India -- Gesture and Melodic Motion -- Ragas as Spaces for Melodic Motion -- Melodic Motion in Time -- The Musicking Body -- The Paramparic Body.…”
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The politics of musical time : expanding songs and shrinking markets in Bengali devotional performance / Eben Graves. by Graves, Eben

Subjects: “…Kirtana (Hinduism) India West Bengal History and criticism.…”
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This thing called music : essays in honor of Bruno Nettl / edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine, Philip V. Bohlman.

Table of Contents: “…Performing translation in Jewish India : Kirtan of the Bene Israel /…”
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Tales, tunes, and tassa drums : retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music / Peter Manuel. by Manuel, Peter, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Bhojpuri Diasporic Music and the Encounter with India -- 5. Tassa Drumming from India to the Caribbean and Beyond -- 6. …”
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Orientalism and the operatic world / Nicholas Tarling. by Tarling, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Bible-based operas ; Crusaders, Arabs and Turks ; Egypt ; India and Ceylon ; China ; Japan ; Russia.…”
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Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, Volume III. by Anderson, William M., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: Teaching Music from a Multicultural Perspective; Chapter 2: Music of East Asia; Chapter 3: Music of Southeast Asia; Chapter 4: Music of South Asia: India; Chapter 5: Music of the Middle East; Glossary; Index; Contributors.…”
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Yodel-ay-ee-oooo : the secret history of yodeling around the world / Bart Plantenga. by Plantenga, Bart

Table of Contents: “…-- Who duh lay hee who : Swiss yodeling -- Germany and Austria : velvet throats & leather pants -- Where yodels are jodeled beyond the Alps -- From India to Down Under -- Africa beyond the rainforest -- Transmission and transition -- The hillbillies are alive with yodeling -- A cowboy's yip to a yodel -- Modern epiglottal frontiers -- Be on your avant garde, yodelers.…”
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Shadows in the Field : New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. by Barz, Gregory F.

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on Gender and Research in Village India; 8. Fieldwork in the Ethnomusicological Past.…”
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Theorizing the local : music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond / edited by Richard K. Wolf.

Table of Contents: “…Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton -- Spaces and itineraries. …”
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Musical development and learning : the international perspective / edited by David J. Hargreaves and Adrian C. North.

Table of Contents: “…List of contributors; Preface; 1 Africa; 2 Australia; 3 China; 4 Federal Republic of Germany; 5 India; 6 Italy; 7 Japan; 8 Korea; 9 North America; 10 Poland; 11 Portugal; 12 Post-USSR countries; 13 Scandinavia; 14 South America; 15 United Kingdom; 16 Conclusions: the international perspective; Name index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.…”
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Refashioning pop music in Asia : cosmopolitan flows, political tempos, and aesthetic industries / edited by Allen Chun, Ned Rossiter, and Brian Shoesmith.

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Companion to music in the age of the Catholic monarchs / edited by Tess Knighton.

Table of Contents: “…Talavera's Offices with a Theological Programme Aimed at the Conversion of the MoriscosChapter 9; Musical Cultures in the Reinos de Indias at the Time of Isabel and Ferdinand; Javier Marín López ; The Catholic Monarchs and the Reinos de Indias; Sounds and Musics of Columbus's Journeys; European Discourses on Aboriginal Musics; Peninsular Musical Practices in Civic and Domestic Milieus ; The Institutionalization of the Cathedral Model; The Creation of Cathedral Music Libraries ; Chapter 10; The Roman Connection: The Spanish Nation in the Papal Chapel, 1492-1521; Richard Sherr…”
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