Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Summary : Formations of Ritual was first published in 1994. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shifts focus from India’s relationship to the West to little-studied connections between Sri Lanka and North India. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry.

The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. Summary : A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program.

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