Tonight You Will Hear the Wedding of God
Heteroglossia and Polythematicism in the Performance of a Rājasthani Kathā
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Napier (0000-0001-6283-5810, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-112 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-9202 • E-ISSN: 1553-5630 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/amu.2013.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2010473169 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper investigates a performance of the Mahādevjī kā byāvalā , a kathā or story, by Kishori Nāth, a Rājasthani musician. The story is familiar: performers engage audiences through several strategies. I outline two of these: tone and heteroglossia. Performers are never evaluated primarily for musical ability, and most present the kathā using only a few melodies. Kishori Nāth's performance was atypical, using 110 distinct melodies. Analysis of this performance from several perspectives-musical variety, affect, episodic structure, and the interaction of melody and heteroglossia-demonstrates that a complex meshing of these leads to a powerful event to which musical skill contributes greatly
Aesthetics · Art · Heteroglossia · Linguistics · Literature · Melody · Musical · Tone (literature) · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |