Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology
Zoe C. Sherinian
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Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who drew on Tamil folk music to create a distinctive form of indigenized Christian music. Appavoo composed songs and liturgy infused with messages linking Christian theology with critiques of social inequality. Sherinian traces the history of Christian music in India and introduces us to a community of Tamil Dalit Christian villagers, seminary students, ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253002334
SKU
V9780253002334
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Ref
99-33
About Zoe C. Sherinian
Zoe C. Sherinian is Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma. A percussionist and filmmaker, her ethnographic film on the changing status of Dalit drummers is titled This is a Music: Reclaiming an Untouchable Drum.
Reviews for Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology
Zoe Sherinian's Tamil Folk Music as Dalit Liberation Theology is a landmark study of how music can combat oppression. The book deserves to be read by all ethnomusicologists interested in social justice movements, applied ethnomusi-cology, South Asian musics, and global Christianity.
Ethnomusicology
Sherinian's book is of obvious interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and other socially oriented scholars focused on ... Read more
Ethnomusicology
Sherinian's book is of obvious interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and other socially oriented scholars focused on ... Read more