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13. Káfriinha, Kaffringha, and the Bailasphere—Sri Lanka and Beyond

  • Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan
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Sounding the Indian Ocean
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© 2023 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2023 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Acknowledgements xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Section One. Listeners
  6. Section One. Listeners 1. “There is no modesty or shame in this city”: What Bengalis Heard in Colonial Burma, c. 1900 33
  7. 2. A Feeling for the Boundaries: Sounding the Indian Ocean on the Swahili Coast 54
  8. Section Two. Mobilities
  9. 3. Swahili Covers, Sufi Prayers, and Liberation Hymns: Women’s Mobilities in Competitive Tufo Dance Associations in Northern Mozambique 77
  10. 4. An Untouchable Kīrtan: Sonic Liberation on the Andaman Islands 99
  11. 5. Baloch Musical Repertoires and Culture Production in the Post-Maritime Gulf Metropolis 120
  12. Section Three. Mediascapes
  13. 6. Sonic Atmospheres in Mauritian Devotional Islam: Sensing Transoceanic Connections in a Creole Society 145
  14. 7. Arabian Passings in Indian Ocean History: Troubadours, Technology, and the Longue Durée, 1656–1963 158
  15. Section Four. Communities
  16. 8. Making Pilgrimage, Making Home: Sikh Sacred Soundings in Kenya 181
  17. 9. Tracing the Indian Ocean at the Cape: Locating Performance and Writing Practices of the Cape Muslim Community 199
  18. 10. Music and Citizenship: Using Siddi and Sheedi Musical Practices to Expand On Concepts of Belonging 216
  19. Section Five. Connections
  20. 11. Squinting at Greater India 233
  21. 12. Transplanted Musics in a Plantation Society: Performing Arts on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1826–1955 251
  22. 13. Káfriinha, Kaffringha, and the Bailasphere—Sri Lanka and Beyond 274
  23. Conclusions
  24. 14. Bandung 2.0: Audible Dakwah and the Performance of Indian Ocean Islam 297
  25. Epilogue: Global Indian Ocean(s) and the Promise of a Decolonial World 311
  26. Contributors 317
  27. General Index 321
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