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"How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the 18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary exploration of what is ostensibly sacred music in South Asia. Offering a potent critique of musicological knowledge-making, Virinder S. Kalra explores examples of South Asian musics in various domains and traverses a new cartography of music in which the sacred and the secular overlap. Drawing on examples which include Qawwali, kirtan and popular devotional genres, Sacred and Secular Musics offers new empirical material, as well as new insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in which music performs sacredness and secularity across the contested India-Pakistan border in the region of Punjab. Through its deconstruction of the sacred/secular opposition, Sacred and Secular Musics explores the relationship of religion and music to wider questions of religion and politics. Its postcolonial approach brings Asia into the Western sacred/secular opposition, and provides a set of analytical tools - a language and range of theories - to allow further exploration of non-western religious music."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Sacred music --- Music --- Qawwāl --- Kirtana (Sikhism) --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Kirtan (Sikhism) --- Worship (Sikhism) --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Religious music --- Worship music --- History and criticism. --- Western influences. --- Qawwālī --- Kawwali --- Qawali --- Islamic music --- Sufi music --- Vocal music

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The authors offer a critical assessment of the key literature on diaspora & hybridity, & how these concepts relate to the issues of social change & the pursuit of equality.

Migration. Refugees --- Social stratification --- Sociology of minorities --- Ethnicity. --- Cultural fusion. --- Emigration and immigration --- Human beings --- Culturele identiteit. --- Multiculturele samenlevingen. --- Diaspora. --- Social aspects. --- Migrations. --- Human geography --- Migrations of nations --- Culture fusion --- Fusion, Cultural --- Hybridism (Social sciences) --- Hybridity (Social sciences) --- Cultural relations --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Cultural hybridity --- Transculturalism --- Transculturation

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South Asians --- South Asians --- Sud-Asiatiques --- Sud-Asiatiques --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales

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"Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistansuggests new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures constitute the bordering logics inherent within enactments of these boundaries, and positions hegemony and resistance through popular religion as an important indication of wider developments of political and social change. The book also shows how borders are continually being maintained through violence at national, community and individual levels. By exploring selected sites and expressions of piety including shrines, texts, practices and movements, Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal argue that the popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarised picture between formal, institutional religion, nor the 'enchanted universe' of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities. Instead, the book presents a picture of 'religion' as a realm of movement, mobilization, resistance and power in which gender and caste are connate of what comes to be known as 'religious'. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality of the complex, dynamic and contested relations that characterize everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, the book highlights how popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism and theological frameworks while simultaneously reflecting gender/caste society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Religion and sociology --- Religion and sociology --- Caste --- Caste --- India --- Pakistan --- Religion. --- Religion.