Anna Marie Stirr
Biographic Data
| ID | 8754328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Marie Stirr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Stirr |
| SIGNATURE | STIRR A M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love, Politics, and Life between Village and City in Nepali Lok Dohori
Nepali singer Badri Pangeni’s song “Do You Love Me or Not?” portrays a flirtation between a married, migrant man who has come to the city and a young, urban woman he’s met there, A duet in the commercial folk genre known as lok dohori (“folk duet”), this song explicitly and implicitly addresses ideas of what is “true” and “false” in rapidly changing gender dynamics, senses of belonging, and other issues involved in rural-urban and international m…
Heading Home
Through an ethnographic narrative, this chapter describes a trip to a rural village in Lamjung district and a dohori singing event that took place there. It introduces the post-conflict temporal context of the author’s research, and situates her as a researcher, a woman, and a student of dohori singing, at the intersection of the professional world of Kathmandu and the particular rural world she was visiting. It provides an account of one rural s…
Songs with Consequences
This chapter focuses on the pragmatics of dohori singing in rural songfests. With a comparative focus on different types of songfest across Nepal’s rural hill areas, it addresses how songfests frame performances in ways that allow for particular pragmatic effects. These are based on forms of ritualized material and musical exchange that idealize the production of equality, yet often still reproduce inequality. It tells the history of dohori as a …
Love, Solidarity, and Sociopolitical Change
Discussion of political topics in dohori lyrics was strictly forbidden in competitions and the state-run media up until 1990. This chapter looks at the slow movement toward including party politics and specific social issues in dohori performance and recordings. It examines relationships between party politics, identity politics, and the intimate politics of dohori singing. Three interrelated aspects include the inclusion of romantic love in song…
Singing Across Divides
An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, this book 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 performed poetry that is sung, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental m…
Singing Across Divides
An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, this book 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 performed poetry that is sung, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental m…
Heading Home
Through an ethnographic narrative, this chapter describes a trip to a rural village in Lamjung district and a dohori singing event that took place there. It introduces the post-conflict temporal context of the author’s research, and situates her as a researcher, a woman, and a student of dohori singing, at the intersection of the professional world of Kathmandu and the particular rural world she was visiting. It provides an account of one rural s…
Songs with Consequences
This chapter focuses on the pragmatics of dohori singing in rural songfests. With a comparative focus on different types of songfest across Nepal’s rural hill areas, it addresses how songfests frame performances in ways that allow for particular pragmatic effects. These are based on forms of ritualized material and musical exchange that idealize the production of equality, yet often still reproduce inequality. It tells the history of dohori as a …
Love, Solidarity, and Sociopolitical Change
Discussion of political topics in dohori lyrics was strictly forbidden in competitions and the state-run media up until 1990. This chapter looks at the slow movement toward including party politics and specific social issues in dohori performance and recordings. It examines relationships between party politics, identity politics, and the intimate politics of dohori singing. Three interrelated aspects include the inclusion of romantic love in song…
Singing Across Divides
An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, this book 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 performed poetry that is sung, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental m…
Love, Politics, and Life between Village and City in Nepali Lok Dohori
Nepali singer Badri Pangeni’s song “Do You Love Me or Not?” portrays a flirtation between a married, migrant man who has come to the city and a young, urban woman he’s met there, A duet in the commercial folk genre known as lok dohori (“folk duet”), this song explicitly and implicitly addresses ideas of what is “true” and “false” in rapidly changing gender dynamics, senses of belonging, and other issues involved in rural-urban and international m…
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Singing (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)