Songs of Desire and Defiance
Subjectivity, Emotions, and Authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal
Series: Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 9 July 2026
- ISBN 9781666967258
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 230x152x18 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b/w photos 700
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Short description:
Explore the desires and defiance of women through the haunting lyrics of Bhawaiya folk songs, a musical tradition of Bengal.
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Explore the desires and defiance of women through the haunting lyrics of Bhawaiya folk songs, a musical tradition of Bengal.
Bhawaiya and other Bangla folk traditions endure without conforming to dominant expectations, and they sustain deviant, defiant voices that resist cultural homogenization. By weaving together history, performance, emotion, and politics, this book highlights the transformative power of folk music to unsettle identity and create new possibilities of sexual subjectivity in South Asia. It explores how cultural forms embody, negotiate, and subvert constructions of identity, looking at lyrics and performances that historically embody female sexual subjectivity and defiant emotions while considering the debate around authenticity between nationalist, corporate, and Islamist interests. With in-depth ethnographic storytelling that connects colonial and postcolonial histories and contemporary politics, it traces how Bhawaiya creates spaces for alternative voices that resist dominant narratives of national, religious and gender identities.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Identities and Bhawaiya in Their Subversive Margins
2. Subjectivity of Deviant, Defiant and Dangerous Women
3. Becoming the Woman of Bhawiaya
4. Negotiating Authentic Subject
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
