East Indian Music in the West Indies

East Indian Music in the West Indies
	Contents
	List of Map, Illustrations, and Musical Examples
	Preface
		Methodological Challenges and Strategies
		Terminology, Transliteration, and Transcription
	Acknowledgments
	CHAPTER 1
	Introduction
		East Indians in the West Indies
		Indo-Caribbean Music Culture: An Overview
	CHAPTER 2
	The Development of Local-Classical Music
		Colonial-Era Music Culture in the Bhojpuri Region
		The Emergence of Tāan-Singing: Indentureship to 1920
		Traditional Theater and Tān-Singing
		Tān-Singing in the 1920s–30s
			Musical Instruments
			Dance
			Perspectives on the Early Evolution of Tān-Singing
		Tān-Singing in Transition: The Mid-1930s to the 1960s
			Films and Film Music
			Records from India
			Socio-Musical Developments
			Competitions
			Local Records and Radio
	CHAPTER 3
	The 1960s to the Present: Efflorescence and Decline
		Trinidad
		Guyana
		Suriname
		The Contemporary Scene
		The Decline
		Perspectives on Tan-Singing's Evolution: The Construction of a Tradition
		Song Anthologies: Creative (Mis?)uses
			Hypotheses Regarding Tān-Singing's History
			Tān-Singing's Evolution and Indian Music
	CHAPTER 4
	Tradition, Innovation, and Identity in Tān-Singing Aesthetics
		Song Texts
		Picong
		Song Settings and Composition
		Improvisation
		Religion and Tradition
		Pedagogy
		Aesthetics
		Encounters with India
	CHAPTER 5
	Style and Subgenre in Tān-Singing
		Mode and Melody
		Rhythm and Meter
		Trinidadian, Guyanese, and Surinamese Styles
		Dhrupad
		Tillāna
		Thumri
		Ghazal
		Qawwāli
		Bihāg, Dandak, Lāvni, and Bidāpat
		Khemta
		Bhajan, Hori, Dādra
		Miscellany
	CHAPTER 6
	The Chutney Phenomenon
		The Evolution of Chutney
		Modern Chutney
		Style, Structure, and Lyric Content
		Chutney as Commerce
		The Chutney Polemic
		Religion
		Gender
		Class
		Race: Chutney and Creole Culture
		Chutney-Soca and Carnival
	CHAPTER 7
	Conclusion: Music and the Dynamics of a Diaspora
		Local and Global Hegemonies
		Beyond Chutney-Soca: Indo-Caribbean Music and Identity in the Global Ecumene
	Glossary
	Selections on the Compact Disc
		Trinidad
		Guyana
		Suriname: Chutney
		Trinidad: Chutney
	Selected Hindi Songs in Devnagari Script
	Notes
		Preface
		Chapter One
		Chapter Two
		Chapter Three
		Chapter Four
		Chapter Five
		Chapter Six
		Chapter Seven
	Bibliography
	Discography of Local-Classical Music
		Compilations
	Index