Full Description
Punjab Sounds nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially bounded, the region only emerges in 'regioning', i.e., in words, gestures, objects, and techniques that do the region. Regioning sound reveals the relationship between sound and the region in three interlinked ways: in doing, knowing, and feeling the region through sound.
The volume covers several musical genres of the Punjab region, including within its geographical remit the Punjabi diaspora and east and west Punjab. It also provides new understandings of the role that ephemeral cultural expressions, especially music and sound, play in the formulation of Punjabi identity. Featuring contributions from scholars across North America, South Asia, Europe, and the UK, it brings together diverse perspectives. The chapters use a range of different methods, ranging from computational analysis and ethnography to close textual analysis, demonstrating some of the ways in which research on music and sound can be carried out.
The chapters will be relevant for anyone working on Punjab's music, including the Punjabi diaspora, music, and sound in the Global South. Moreover, it will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the following areas: ethnomusicology, cultural studies, film studies, music studies, South Asian studies, Punjab studies, history, and sound studies, among others.
Contents
Foreword by Ira Bhaskar (Professor (retd) of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India)
1. Introduction
Regioning Sound from South Asia
Vebhuti Duggal (Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) and
Radha Kapuria (Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Durham University)
I. Aural Signs of the Region
2. One Transnation under a Groove: 'Chaal' and the Modern Punjabi Soundscape
Gibb Schreffler (Associate Professor of Music at Pomona College, California)
3. Sound and Politics of Classical Music in West Punjab
G. Ali Shair (Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick)
4. Mixing the legends-Changing Representations of Nostalgia in Diasporic Punjabi remix culture
Julia Szivak (Assistant Lecturer,Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest)
II. Soundscapes of the Punjab
5. Trinjan Audiotopias: Complaint, Desire, and the Bawdy in Punjabi Giddha Performance Practices
Ranbir K. Johal (Lecturer, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver) and Kiran K. Sunar (Assistant Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of British Columbia)
6. Folkloric Poetic Traditions and Gender Relations: An Ethnomusicological Study of Sithnian as a Celebratory Resistance in the Punjab
Sumera Saleem (Assistant Professor of Literature, University of Sargodha)
7. Mapping Punjab Sounds: Two popular Songs about Agriculture and Pottery
Sakoon Singh (Assistant Professor of English, DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
8. Decoding Loudness: The Punjabi Soundscape in Bollywood
Shikha Jhingan (Associate Professor in Film Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
III. Mediating Regional Sound
9. Modernity, Modality, and Meaning: Technological Mediation of Śabad Kīrtan at the Golden Temple
James Kirit Singh (PhD in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London)
10. Identity and affect: Exploring technology and the sonic in Dalit Music in Punjab
Radhika Kumar (Professor in Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi)
11. "Love From India": YouTube Qawwālī as Affective Solidarity in India-Pakistan Relations
Thomas Graves (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Durham University)
Afterword: Coda by Virinder Kalra (Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick)
Acknowledgments
Index
