TY  - BOOK
AU  - Field,Garrett M.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Modernizing Composition : : Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka / 
T2  - South Asia across the disciplines
SN  - 9780520967755
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Songs, Sinhalese
KW  - fast
KW  - Sinhalese poetry
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - The arts
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Music
KW  - Humanities
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Texts
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - North India
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - India, North
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Nationalist thought and the Sri Lankan world -- Brothers of the pure Sinhala Fraternity -- Wartime romance -- Divergent standards of excellence -- For the people -- Illusions to disillusions; Open Access
N2  - "The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. 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."--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63377/
ER  -