Tamil Folk Music As Dalit Liberation Theology

Name: Tamil Folk Music As Dalit Liberation Theology
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ISBN: 9780253002334

ISBN-10: 0253002338

ISBN-13: 9780253002334

Edition: 2020

Authors: Zoe C. Sherinian

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Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Rev. J. Theophilus Appavoo, who drew on Tamil folk music to create a distinctive form of indigenized Christian music. Appavoo composed songs and liturgy infused with messages linking Christian theology with critiques of social inequality. Sherinian traces the history of Christian music in India and introduces us to a community of Tamil Dalit Christian villagers, seminary students, activists, and theologians who have been inspired by…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2020
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 1/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.21" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Zoe C. Sherinian is Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology at the University of Oklahoma. A percussionist and filmmaker, her ethnographic film on the changing status of Dalit drummers is This Is a Music: Reclaiming an Untouchable Drum.