Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India

"Amanda J. Weidman brilliantly turns the tables on ideologies of voice in challenging us to envision music as constituting technologies forproducingvoices. Ethnomusicology, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and critical histories of technology all take a step forward as a genealogy of Indian 'classical' music engenders new insights into colonialism, nationalism, gender, traditionality, and modernity."-Charles L. Briggs, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, BerkeleyAmanda J. Weidman is the author of 'Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India', published 2006 under ISBN 9780822336310 and ISBN 0822336316.