{"product_id":"the-politics-of-musical-time","title":"The Politics of Musical Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Musical Time \u003c\/i\u003etraces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as \u003ci\u003ekīrtan \u003c\/i\u003ein the Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the shifting meanings and practices of devotional performance. Focusing on \u003ci\u003epadābalī kīrtan\u003c\/i\u003e, a type of devotional sung poetry that uses long-duration forms and combines song and storytelling, Eben Graves 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, Graves also explores how religious performances and texts interact with issues of nationalism, gender, and economic exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining ethnography, history, and performance analysis, including videos from the author's fieldwork, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Musical Time \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how ideas about the sacred and the modern have been expressed and contested through features of musical time found in devotional performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Eben Graves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573437825206,"sku":"9780253064370","price":73.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253064370_786a5745-f1d9-437b-b60b-e6735065eee2.jpg?v=1726140453","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politics-of-musical-time","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}