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Music and identity in postcolonial British-South Asian literature / (Record no. 31125)

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fixed length control field	140507s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9781138777361 (hbk)
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title	eng
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	820.9954
Item number	HOE
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Hoene, Christin.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Music and identity in postcolonial British-South Asian literature /
Statement of responsibility, etc	by Christin Hoene.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st ed :
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	Routledge ;
Name of publisher	New York ;
Year of publication	2015.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	x, 168 p;
Accompanying material	hbk,
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement	Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	"This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	South Asian fiction (English)
General subdivision	History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Music in literature.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Postcolonialism in literature.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	MUSIC / Ethnomusicology.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
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Koha item type	Books

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Lost status	Damaged status	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Full call number	Accession Number	Koha item type
		Central Library	Central Library	General Section	22/03/2016	Himanshu Book	9306.00	820.9954 HOE	030916	Books