Of God and Death: Music in Ritual and Everyday Life. A Musical Ethnography of the Kotas of South India

559 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.An examination of the idea of "tribal music" in India reveals that although the construction of tribe and/or tribal music may be fruitfully studied, from an analytical standpoint, the notion of a specifically tribal music must be abandoned. Instead a more inclusive understanding of south Asian music may be called for, one which includes the music of India's tribes.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD