TY  - SER
AU  - Alaghband-Zadeh,Chloë
TI  - Listening to North Indian Classical Music: How Embodied ways of listening perform imagined histories and Social Class
T2  - Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology ; 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Illinois-XXU : 
PB  - University of Illinois Press, 
KW  - FORMAS MUSICALES
KW  - MUSICA CLASICA
KW  - INDIA
N2  - With this article, I theorize the sociality of embodied ways of listen- ing to North Indian classical music. I focus on rasikas (connoisseurs): these expert listeners are conspicuous at live performances, where they gesture and comment to express their enjoyment of the music. Based on ethnography and interviews with musicians and music lovers in Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune, I argue that rasikas' embodied, audible listening practices enact shared imagined histories and perform expertise and social status. Moreover, these listening behaviors also sustain values of the so-called old middle class in India in the face of economic and social change
ER  -