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Author:

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 1958- author.

Title:

Siren song : understanding Pakistan through its women singers / Fawzia Afzal-Khan.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxxviii, 211 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Subject:

Women singers--Pakistan.
Feminism and music--Pakistan.
Music--Social aspects--Pakistan.
Music--Pakistan--History and criticism.
Music--Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Women singers.
Pakistan--Social life and customs.
Pakistan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Cross-cultural studies.
Informational works.
Ethnographies.
Documents d'information.
Études ethnographiques.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-206) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Methodological framing and background information -- The respectable courtesan : reading Malka Pukhraj's postcolonial performative memoir, Song sung true : introducing the respectable courtesan -- Roshan Ara Begum : performing classical music, gender, and Muslim nationalism in Pakistan -- Feminist mediations : the sacred and the secular in three Pakistani female singers' oeuvre -- Reshma and folk music : inventing a tradition -- Border transgressors : from popular war songs to disco-pop, 1960-1980s -- Unsettling the nation : Coke Studio and the new divas of Sufi-pop in contemporary Pakistan -- Epilogue: In media res -- Appendices: Suraiya Multanikar ; Tahira Syed ; Tina Sani ; Hadiqa Kiani ; Aliya Rasheed -- Singing past silence: A personal coda.

ISBN:

0190700548
9780190700546

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1175243920

LCCN:

2020373563

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)