Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520230442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 337 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Beautifully written, highly engaged.exceptional caught between tradition and modernity."--American Ethnography
"Music as Organism" according to Dr. Debra Jan Bibel. Nearly the world over, with perhaps the exception of Western classical artists, music is not regarded as a suitable profession by the majority of a society, yet it fulfills a profound, even integral, need of an individual and is at the center of a culture. This extraordinarily good book discusses how music becomes a contentious po. Great Reading! This is a wonderful book about modern life in Dharamsala, exile home of the Dalai Lama in India. Dr. Diehl, an anthropologist, actually became a member of a local rock and roll band, the Yak band. Her story is about the day-to-day struggles of Tibetans to maintain their sense of identity while adjusting to the modernizing forces o
Diehl's insight into the soundscape of Dharamsala is enriched by her own experiences as the keyboard player for a Tibetan refugee rock group called the Yak Band. Not surprisingly, this community struggles with notions of home, displacement, ethnic identity, and assimilation. Her groundbreaking study reveals the importance of music as a site where official and personal, old and new representations of Tibetan culture meet and where different notions of "Tibetan-ness" are being imagined, performed, and debated.. Diehl scrutinizes this tension in her discussion of the refugees' enthusiasm for songs from blockbuster Hindi films, the popularity of Western rock and roll among Tibetan youth, and the emergence of a new genre of modern Tibetan music. In this way, she complicates explanations of culture change provided by the popular idea of "global flow."Diehl's accessible, absorbing narrative argues that the exiles' focus on cu