16 Bodies with Songs: The Sounds and Politics of Interstitial Lyrics in Bengali Devotional Performance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. List of Audiovisual samples 11
5. List of Illustrations, (Verse) Samples and Captions 15
6. Introduction: The Potential of a Sonic Turn. Toward an Acoustemology of the Post-Secula 19
7. 1 Speaking in Tongues in Comparative Contexts and their Digital Soundscapes 61
8. 2 Sonic Ways to Embodied Remembrance: Sufi dhikr in an Italian Roma camp 79
9. 3 Aural Auras of Inner Sounds: Conch Shells, Ritual Instruments, and Devotional Bodies 97
10. 4 Sounding Pain: Public-Private Aspects of Shi‘a Women’s Sonic Practices in Muharram 113
11. 5 Sounds Electronic: New Sonic Mediations of Gender and Spiritual Empowerment 131
12. 6 Sounding Remembrance, Voicing Mourning: Material, Ethical, and Gendered Productions of a New “Voice” in Shah Jo Rāg 151
13. 7 Sonic Gendering of Ritual Spaces 167
14. 8 Sounding Resilience and Resistance: Tarana Songs of Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia 183
15. 9 Festival as Ritual and Ritual in Festival: Sounding “Exotic Borderlands” in Northern Taiwan 199
16. 10 Music as Epistemic Bulwark in West Bengal 217
17. 11 The Power and the Politics of Embodying Dancehall: Reconciling Sonic Affect and the Religious Self in Singapore 233
18. 12 Performing vs. Recording: The Sound of Modern Bali 247
19. 13 Amplified Waves: The Politics of Religious Sound in Indonesia and Beyond 263
20. 14 A Theory of Ritual Polyphony in Chinese Religious Performances 283
21. 15 The Ensoundments of the Materially Ethereal in Indigenous Riau (Sumatra) 301
22. 16 Bodies with Songs: The Sounds and Politics of Interstitial Lyrics in Bengali Devotional Performance 319
23. Afterword: Sonic Materiality, Religion, and Non-Religion 337
24. Index 347