Awards

• Winner of Winner of the Bruno Nettl Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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Author:   Jim Sykes (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780190077143

ISBN 10:   019007714
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface & Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Supplementary Materials Part One: Finding Musical Gifts Introduction: For a Musicology of Karma and Reincarnation Chapter One: Sonic Generosity: Beyond Secularism and Conflict in Music Studies Part Two: Musical Giving as Protection and Destruction Checkpoint: Musical Gifts and the Movement of Ghosts Chapter Two: Berav=a Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts Chapter Three: Sri Lankan Tamil Musical Giving: An Introduction Chapter Four: The Cartography of Culture Zones: Social Relations and the Conversion of Sonic Money Part Three: The Discursive Erasure of Musical Giving Chapter Five: Beyond the Musicology of Disaster: War, Tsunami, Post-War Checkpoint: The Malays Who Sing in Six Languages Chapter Six: The Island Space: Music, Buddhism, and the Sinhalas Part Four: Rediscovering Musical Giving Checkpoint: Re-Connecting Sinhala and Tamil Musical Cultures Conclusion: The Regulation of Happiness in Post-War Sri Lanka References

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As assertions about music and the state become increasingly cliche, The Musical Gift provides a timely critique of the music and identity episteme. Focusing on acts of musical giving, the author provides a wide-ranging study of interpenetrating musical histories in Sri Lanka - shared histories that have implications for post-war reconciliation. Music scholars, anthropologists, and South Asianists may all find something useful and surprising in this exciting new work. * Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University * In his multicultural analysis of Sri Lanka's soundscape, Sykes emphasizes the public exchange of melodies and rhythms, rituals and dances, between the island's diverse religions and ethnicities. This is an anthropologically rich book presenting a strong case against musical ethno-nationalism. * Dennis B. McGilvray, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Past President of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies *

In his multicultural analysis of Sri Lanka's soundscape, Sykes emphasizes the public exchange of melodies and rhythms, rituals and dances, between the island's diverse religions and ethnicities. This is an anthropologically rich book presenting a strong case against musical ethno-nationalism. -- Dennis B. McGilvray, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Past President of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies As assertions about music and the state become increasingly cliche, The Musical Gift provides a timely critique of the music and identity episteme. Focusing on acts of musical giving, the author provides a wide-ranging study of interpenetrating musical histories in Sri Lanka - shared histories that have implications for post-war reconciliation. Music scholars, anthropologists, and South Asianists may all find something useful and surprising in this exciting new work. -- Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University

Author Information

Jim Sykes is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in sound and music studies, religious studies, labor history/capitalism, and conflict studies, focusing to date on Sri Lanka and Singapore. He is the co-editor of Remapping Sound Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). He is also a drummer who has recorded and toured widely with numerous experimental and indie rock groups.

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