{"id":562,"date":"2018-10-17T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=562"},"modified":"2018-10-17T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:01:10","slug":"maciszewski-amelia-texts-tunes-and-talking-heads-discourses-about-socially-marginal-north-indian-musicians-twentieth-century-music-vol-3-no-1-pp-121-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Maciszewski, Amelia. “Texts, Tunes, and Talking Heads: Discourses about Socially Marginal North Indian Musicians.” Twentieth-Century Music, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 121-144."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this study, criss-crossing discourses \u2013 written, visual, and aural \u2013 are brought together in an effort to shed light on a section of the\u00a0tawa\u2019if<\/em>\u00a0(traditional courtesan) community in contemporary North India. As a kind of companion text to my point-of-view documentaries\u00a0Guria, Gossip, and Globalization<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Chandni\u2019s Choice<\/em>, I present an overview of the NGO Guria. This organization works to empower\u00a0tawa\u2019if<\/em>s to reclaim their liminality as artists, able to move back and forth between their own profoundly socially marginalized community and mainstream society, a privilege they enjoyed historically but have virtually lost in the present day. I have juxtaposed this with an exegesis of talk, including gossip, about and by these performers and their music. This includes issues of their gossip- and media-driven legacy that have led to their current position, often dangerously vulnerable, in the global marketplace. Finally, I examine the life of a teenage member of a musical matriarchy whose foremothers have been somewhat successful at continuing to traverse the borderlands between various levels of society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abstract In this study, criss-crossing discourses \u2013 written, visual, and aural \u2013 are brought together in an effort to shed light on a section of the\u00a0tawa\u2019if\u00a0(traditional courtesan) community in contemporary North India. As a kind of companion text to my point-of-view documentaries\u00a0Guria, Gossip, and Globalization\u00a0and\u00a0Chandni\u2019s Choice, I present an overview of the NGO Guria. This Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[24,88,49],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-tawaif-life","tag-dance","tag-music","tag-tawaif"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t