Siren Song
Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 1 December 2020
- ISBN 9780190700546
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 215x134x14 mm
- Weight 276 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 Images (black and white) 0
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Short description:
Fawzia Afzal-Khan's book is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing antisecular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma, and of the newer music and musical space offered by Coke Studio, Afzal-Khan shows us the multiple ways in which women performers negotiated and continue to negotiate their way through the numerous challenges thrown their way in the wake of the partitioning of the subcontinent and the multiple demands placed on them.
MoreLong description:
Fawzia Afzal-Khan's book is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing antisecular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma, and of the newer music and musical space offered by Coke Studio, Afzal-Khan shows us the multiple ways in which women performers negotiated and continue to negotiate their way through the numerous challenges thrown their way in the wake of the partitioning of the subcontinent and the multiple demands placed on them.
Particularly commendable and refreshing is Afzal-Khan's inclusion of her personal narrative as an aspiring singer trained in classical vocal singing. This gives the reader a front-row view of the Indo-Pakistani classical singing world as well as Afzal-Khan's artistic engagements as a practitioner, described in the book's coda. Her work also gives impetus to the project of reclaiming Pakistan's Indic past and the preservation of its intangible cultural heritage.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Methodological Framing and Background Information
1. THE RESPECTABLE COURTESAN
Reading Malka Pukhraj's Postcolonial Performative Memoir, Song Sung True: Introducing the Respectable Courtesan
2. ROSHAN ARA BEGUM
Performing Classical Music, Gender, and Muslim Nationalism in Pakistan
3. FEMINIST MEDIATIONS
The Sacred and the Secular in Three Pakistani Female Singers' Oeuvre
4. RESHMA AND FOLK MUSIC
Inventing a Tradition
5. BORDER TRANSGRESSORS
From Popular War Songs to Disco-Pop, 1960-1980s
6. UNSETTLING THE NATION
Coke Studio and the New Divas of Sufi-Pop in Contemporary Pakistan
EPILOGUE
In Media Res
APPENDICES: INTERVIEWS
1. Suraiya Multanikar
2. Tahira Syed
3. Tina Sani
4. Hadiqa Kiani
5. Aliya Rasheed
SINGING PAST SILENCE: A PERSONAL CODA
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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