Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr Go from ordinary to extraordinary

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Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr Go from ordinary to extraordinaryAn ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and