Bibliography on Religion & Music in South and
Southeast Asia
Originally Compiled by Lance Nelson
(See addenda below)
RELIGION AND MUSIC IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Encyclopedia
Alison, Arnold, ed. South Asia: The Indian
Subcontinent. Garland encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 5. New York, NY :
Garland Pub., 2000.
Miller, Terry E., and Sean Williams, eds. Southeast
Asia. Garland encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 4. New York, NY: Garland
Pub., 1998.
Video
Given to Dance: India's Odissi Tradition. 1985.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for South Asia (Film, 57 minutes).
http://www.wisc.edu/southasia/films/given.html
Books and Articles
Allen, Matthew. 1997. "Rewriting the Script for
South Indian Dance." In TDR / Journal of Performance Studies
41(3):63-100.
Allen, Matthew. "1998. Tales Tunes Tell:
Deepening the Dialogue Between 'Classical' and 'non-Classical' in the
Music of India." In Yearbusic 30:22-52.
Azad Faruqi, I.H. 1984. "Sufism and Bhakti:
Maulana Rum and Sri Ramakrishna." Delhi: Abhinav.
Beck, Guy L. 1993. Sonic Theology: Hinduism and
Sacred Sound. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.
Beck, Guy. Forthcoming editemusic in religions of the
world.
Becker, Judith O. 1980. Traditional Music in Modern
Java: Gamelan in a Changing Society. Honolulu : University Press of
Hawaii.
Becker, Judith O. 1993. Gamelan Stories: Tantrism,
Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java. Tempe, Ariz.: Program for Southeast
Asian Studies, Arizona State University.
Becker, Judith O. 1997. "Tantrism, Rasa, and
Javanese Gamelan Music." In Sullivan, 15-59.
Carter, John Ross. 1983. "Music in Theravada
Buddhist Heritage: In Chant, in Song, in Sri Lanka." In Irwin, pp.
127-147.
Irwin, Joyce, ed. 1983. Sacred Sound: Music in
Religious Thought and Practice / edited by Joyce Irwin. Journal of the
American Academy of Religion studies v. 50, no. 1 Chico, Calif.: Scholars
Press. [See Carter, Lawrence, Wulff]
Lawrence, Bruce B. 1983. "The Early Chishti
Approach to Sama." In Irwin, pp. 93-109.
Leslie, Julia, ed. 1991. Roles and Rituals for Hindu
Women. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press. [Essays on
Devadasis and Bharata Natyam]
Mansukhani, Gobind Singh. "Indian Classical
Music and Sikh Kirtan." Oxford/IBH, 1982.
Marglin, Frederique Apffel. 1985. Wives of the
God-King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Meduri, Avanthi. 1991. "Bharatha Natyam: What
Are You?" recently reprinted in Dils, Ann, and Ann Cooper Albright,
eds., "Moving History / Dancing Cultures: A Dance History
Reader." Wesleyan Univ. Press.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. 1997. "Islam and Music:
The Legal and the Spiritual Dimensions." In Sullivan, pp. 219-235.
Orr, Leslie C. 2000. Donors, Devotees, and Daughters
of God: Temple Women in Nedieval Tamilnadu. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Palackal, Joseph. 2001. "India; Christian
Music." in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol
12:223-234.
Pesch, Ludwig. 1999. "The Illustrated Companion
to South Indian Music." Oxford Univ. Press.
Qureshi, Regula. 1986. Sufi Music of India and
Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali." Cambridge Univ.
Press; Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995.
Qureshi, Regula Burkhardt. 1997. "Sounding the
World: Music in the Life of Islam." In Sullivan, pp. 263-298.
Rowell, Lewis. 1992. Music and Musical Thought in
Early India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ruckert, George. 2003. "Music in North India:
Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture." Oxford Univ. Press.
Shultz,????. ???? "Hindu Nationalism, Music, and
Embodiment" Journal of Ethnomusicology, Vol.46, No. 2 p.307
Sherinian, Zoe. 2002. "Dalit Theology in Tamil
Christian Folk Music: A Transformative Liturgy by James Theophilus Appavoo."
In Raj, Selva,and Corinne Dempsey, eds., "Popular Christianity in
India: Riting Between the Lines." Albany, N.Y.: State University of
New York Press.
Subramaniam, V. 1983. "The Sacred and the
Secular in India's Performing Arts: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Centenary
Essays." Columbia, MO: South Asia Books.
Sullivan, Lawrence E. 1997. Enchanting Powers: Music
in the World's Religions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Center for
the Study of World Religions. [see Becker, Qureshi, Nasr]
Yoshitaka Tarada, ????. "T. N. Rajarattinam
Pillai and Caste Rivalry in South Indian Classical Music."
Ethnomusicology Journal p. 460. ???????
Wulff, Donna. 1983. "On Practicing Religiously:
Music as Sacred in India." In "Sacred Sound: Music in Religious
Thought and Practice," ed. Joyce Irwin, 149-172. Chico, Calif.:
Scholars Press.
Viswanathan, T., and Matthew Allen. 2003. "Music
in South India: The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond." Oxford
Univ. Press, 2003. (forthcoming in about a month; please see http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195145909.html
for information)
**ADDENDA**
Thielemann, Selina. 1998. Sounds of the Sacred:
Religious Music in India. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation.
___. 1998. Rasalila: a Musical Study of Religious
Drama in Vraja. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation.
Journal of Vaishnava Studies (Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring
1996), guest editor, Guy L. Beck. (The issue is devoted entirely to
music.)
Kelting, Whitney. Singing to the Jinas. ??: Oxford
UP, 2001
Revised: December 26, 2003
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