Three Perspectives on Music and the Idea of Tribe in India
Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: Critical theory has taught us that to name and delineate a socialcultural category is also in some sense to construct or objectify it. The papers in this volume focus on the music associated with one such category in India, the tribe. In talking about tribal music we are tacitly accepting the concept of tribe, and yet perhaps this concept itself deserves a closer look first. Clearly, the way in which people (including ourselves) define what is tribal -their idea(s) of tribe -will affect the ways one might discuss tribal music.
Source: Asian Music
DOI: 10.2307/834329
Author: Richard Kent Wolf
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2073576140