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Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Fawzia Afzal-Khan's book is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing antisecular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma,
and of the newer music and musical space offered by Coke Studio, Afzal-Khan shows us the multiple ways in which women performers negotiated and continue to negotiate their way through the numerous challenges thrown their way in the wake of the partitioning of the subcontinent and the multiple
demands placed on them.

Pages: 252

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: August 25, 2020

ISBN: 0190700548

ISBN 13: 9780190700546

Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Fawzia Afzal-Khan's book is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing antisecular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma,
and of the newer music and musical space offered by Coke Studio, Afzal-Khan shows us the multiple ways in which women performers negotiated and continue to negotiate their way through the numerous challenges thrown their way in the wake of the partitioning of the subcontinent and the multiple
demands placed on them.

Pages: 252

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: August 25, 2020

ISBN: 0190700548

ISBN 13: 9780190700546

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