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The Indian Sarangi: Sound of Affect, Site of Contest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Regula Burckhart Qureshi
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The Indian sarangi is uniquely endowed with meaning. Beloved for its evocatively vocal sound and its vivid associations, it also conveys disrepute as part of a highly charged, ambivalent musical identity. Studying, and living with, the Indian sarangi taught me such meanings through participating in the musical experience and memories of cultural insiders*

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 29 , 1997 , pp. 1 - 38
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Copyright © 1997 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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