Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert

by Shalini R Ayyagari

Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial world

In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's independence in 1947, the Manganiyar community of hereditary musicians were tied to traditional patrons over centuries and through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819500100
• ISBN13: 9780819500106
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.6"