Freedom, Margins, and Music: Performance as Development Discourse in Nepal
| Autor: | Victoria M. Dalzell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
060101 anthropology
Human rights media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Social change 0507 social and economic geography Ethnic group Gender studies Citizen journalism 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Indigenous Position (finance) 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Music media_common |
| Zdroj: | Asian Music. 48:111-149 |
| ISSN: | 1553-5630 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/amu.2017.0020 |
| Popis: | In this article, I examine how the Tharu—one of the largest ethnic minority groups in Nepal, indigenous to the country's southern plains—frame their position as landless, bonded laborers ( kamaiyā ) as a human rights crisis within maghauta nāc competitions. Originally, the maghauta nāc was a participatory song-and-dance genre performed during the festival of Māghī , but the Tharu now widely showcase it in competitions. I argue that the Tharu employ the human rights discourse in their performances to enact social change in their communities and reform their public image, all on their own terms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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