Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology /
Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who dre...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomingdon, IN :
Indiana University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Ethnomusicology multimedia.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : context and concepts : singing the Lord's prayer as freedom in a Tamil land
- How can the subaltern speak? Musical style, value, and the historical process of
- (Re)indigenization of Tamil Christian music
- Sharing the meal : a Dalit family's dialogue with the history of Tamil Christian music, 1850-1994
- Paraṭṭai's theology : greeting God in the cēri
- Ethnography as transformative musical dialogue
- Reception and transformation from seminary to village
- Performing global Dalit consciousness.
