Echoes from Dharamsala Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community

Name: Echoes from Dharamsala Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community
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ISBN: 9780520230446

ISBN-10: 0520230442

ISBN-13: 9780520230446

Edition: 2001

Authors: Keila Diehl

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In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in place," but at the same time they have physically and psychologically constructed Dharamsala as "not Tibet," as a temporary resting place to which many are unable or unwilling to become attached. Not surprisingly, this community struggles with notions of home, displacement, ethnic identity, and assimilation. Diehl's ethnography explores the contradictory realities of cultural homogenization,…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface


Note to the Reader


Introduction: Theory at Home and in the Field



Dharamsala: A Resting Place to Pass Through



"There Is a Tension in Our Hearts": Constructing the Rich Cultural Heritage of Tibet



Taking Refuge in (and from) India: Film Songs, Angry Mobs, and Other Exilic Pleasures and Fears



The West as Surrogate Shangri-La: Rock and Roll and Rangzen as Style and Ideology



"The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hammered Down": Making Modern Tibetan Music



"Little Jolmo Bird in the Willow Grove": Crafting Tibetan Song Lyrics



A Peek Through Ragged Tent Flaps and Heaven's Door: Concerts that Rupture and Bond Conclusion: Cycles, Echoes, and Their Implications


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index