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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01jq085n47g| Title: | Modernizing composition: Sinhala song, poetry, and politics in twentieth-century Sri Lanka |
| Contributors: | Field, Garrett M. |
| Keywords: | Sri Lanka Music Songs, Sinhalese -- Texts -- 20th century -- History and criticism Sinhalese poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Songs, Sinhalese -- 20th century -- History and criticism Sri Lanka -- Politics and government -- 20th century Sri Lanka -- Foreign relations -- India, North Nationalism |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Place of Publication: | Oakland, California |
| Description: | "The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India's relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India."--Provided by publisher. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01jq085n47g |
| ISBN: | 9780520967755 9780520294714 |
| ISSN: | 0520294718 |
| Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.27 |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Access Limited to Princeton) |
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