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How Does Music mean? Embodied Memories and the Politics of Affect in the Indian Sarangi
Author(s) -
Qureshi Regula
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.805
Subject(s) - emic and etic , sociology , affect (linguistics) , politics , embodied cognition , ethnomusicology , aesthetics , feudalism , tamil , hegemony , affect theory , colonialism , gender studies , media studies , anthropology , musical , psychology , social psychology , visual arts , literature , epistemology , political science , art , law , philosophy , communication , feeling
In this article, I bring the multidimensional sensory medium of music into the anthropological conversation on meaning and embodiment Based on a study of the sarangi that is frankly experiential as well as broadly referenced (India, Pakistan, North America), I explore how an instrument can become an icon of intense affect and performance contexts privileged sites for enacting and contesting cultural memories in the face of hegemonic resign ification across India's political transformation from feudal‐colonial to urban‐bourgeois dominance. [meaning, embodiment, affect, memory, performance, ethnography, ethnomusicology, India, Pakistan, sarangi, music, instrument, nautch]