Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr sometimes infuriating

sometimes infuriating

the questionable necessity of detonating atom bombs over Hiroshima & Nagasaki

and the decisions we make as we travel on the train are our responsibility alone

As more and more people lose themselves to the lure of money

Ram is beside himself with grief and rage

Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr sometimes infuriatingAn ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and