{"product_id":"singing-across-divides-music-and-intimate-politics-in-nepal-9780190631970","title":"Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna Marie Stirr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnomusicology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, \u003cem\u003eSinging Across Divides\u003c\/em\u003e examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali \u003cem\u003edohori \u003c\/em\u003esong. The book describes \u003cem\u003edohori\u003c\/em\u003e: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and accompanying dance, performed between men and women, with a primary focus on romantic love. The book tells the story of dohori's relationship with changing ideas of Nepal as a nation-state, and how different nationalist concepts of unity have incorporated marginality, in the intersectional arenas of caste, indigeneity, class, gender, and regional identity. Dohori gets at the heart of tensions around ethnic, caste, and gender difference, as it promotes potentially destabilizing musical and poetic interactions, love, sex, and marriage across\u003cbr\u003ethese social divides. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the aftermath of Nepal's ten-year civil war, changing political realities, increased migration, and circulation of people, media and practices are redefining concepts of appropriate intimate relationships and their associated systems of exchange. Through multi-sited ethnography of performances, media production, circulation, reception, and the daily lives of performers and fans in Nepal and the UK, \u003cem\u003eSinging Across Divides\u003c\/em\u003e examines how people use dohori to challenge (and uphold) social categories, while also creating affective solidarities.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889966071959,"sku":"9780190631970","price":12447.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190631970.webp?v=1781178372","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/singing-across-divides-music-and-intimate-politics-in-nepal-9780190631970","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}