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Title:The musical journey: re-centring AfroAsia through an arc of musical sorrow
Authors:Damodaran, Sumangala
Sitas, AriISNI
Year:2016
Periodical:Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies (ISSN 1992-6049)
Volume:30
Issue:2
Pages:252-268
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Asia
India
Subjects:music
music history
slaves
women
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2016.1187792
Abstract:The article weaves together the historical journey of a set of lament-like musical tropes from the seventh century AD to the 15th, to trace the commonalities in composition and performance. It argues that key to this transmission were women in servitude or slavery, and begins to explore the role of Africans in this long-distance transfer of symbolic goods. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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