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<P>How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own musical careers. This book traces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kirtan in the Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the shifting meanings and practices of devotional performance. Focusing on padabali kirtan, a type of devotional sung poetry that uses long-duration forms and combines song and storytelling, the author examines how expressions of religious affect and political belonging linked with the genre become strained in contemporary, shortened performance time frames. To illustrate the political economy of performance in South Asia, he also explores how religious performances and texts interact with issues of nationalism, gender, and economic exchange. Combining ethnography, history, and performance analysis, including videos from the author's fieldwork, this volume reveals how ideas about the sacred and the modern have been expressed and contested through features of musical time found in devotional performance.</P>

The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance

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The Politics of Musical Time

THE POLITICS OF MUSICAL TIME

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Accessing Audiovisual Materials.
Acknowledgments.
Notes on Spelling and Transliteration.
Notes on Representing Musical Sound.
Notes on Dating Systems.
Map.
Other Frontmatter.
Introduction: K&#x012B;rtan&#x2019;s Influence Derives from Time.
1: Genealogies of K&#x012B;rtan.
2: Temporality and Devotional Performance in Bengal.
3: The Seeds of K&#x012B;rtan: Histories and Imaginaries of Devotional Song in Early Modern Bengal.
4: Devotional Song Arrives in the City: Histories of Patronage and Images of the Devout Musician in the Colonial Period.
5: Institutional Pasts and Professional Futures: Temporalities of Instruction and Performance in Contemporary West Bengal.
6: The Devotional Aesthetics of Musical Expansion.
7: Word-Pictures: Expansions of Mood and Meaning in K&#x012B;rtan Song Texts.
8: Sonic Synchronies of T&#x0101;l Theory.
9: The Divine Play of the Tax Collector: Musical Expansion, Embodied Response, and Didactic Storytelling in a L&#x012B;l&#x0101; K&#x012B;rtan.
10: The Shrinking Markets for Expanding Songs.
11: The Marketplace of Music Festivals: Modern Social Time and Musical Labor.
12: Media Markets: Visualization and the Abstraction of Musical Time.
Conclusion: K&#x012B;rtan Online.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the Author.

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The Politics of Musical Time: Expanding Songs and Shrinking Markets in Bengali Devotional Performance