-- Eben Graves, who was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, has written this book based on over 10 years of research alongside practitioners of devotional music. In 2014, his dissertation won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Ethnomusicology. -- The Politics of Musical Time is a significant, new study of devotional song, or kirtan , in the Bengal region of India. -- IUP has a strong backlist in South Asian studies. Our 2017 strategic plan stated we would seek opportunities for our currents lists to expand into ...
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-- Eben Graves, who was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, has written this book based on over 10 years of research alongside practitioners of devotional music. In 2014, his dissertation won the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Ethnomusicology. -- The Politics of Musical Time is a significant, new study of devotional song, or kirtan , in the Bengal region of India. -- IUP has a strong backlist in South Asian studies. Our 2017 strategic plan stated we would seek opportunities for our currents lists to expand into global regions with new titles related to strong backlist areas such as South Asian studies. -- The target audience includes students and scholars of ethnomusicology, performance studies, music theory, and South Asian studies.
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