Listening to North Indian classical music: How embodied ways of listening perform imagined histories and social class

With this article, I theorize the sociality of embodied ways of listening to North Indian classical music. I focus on rasikas (connoisseurs): these expert listeners are conspicuous at live performances, where they gesture and comment to express their enjoyment of the music. Based on ethnography and...

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Main Author: Chloe Alaghband-Zadeh
Format: Default Article
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/27668
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