Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Transcription and Music Website
1 Alaap, Introduction
Sacred and secular
Native informant/musician
Punjab, Pakistan, India
Book arrangement
Coda โ Conclusion
2 Postcolonial Musicological Present
Mute musicology
Music, Hegel, religion
Claims and classifi cation
Musicological encounters
Raj (imperial) music
Alibis
Disengaged continuities
3 Sacred-Classical-Clessicul
Forming the Clessicul
Religion and nation
Clessicul disclosures and enclosures
Punjab syncopation
Performing exclusion
Cadence
4 Crafting Kirtan
Kirtan contestations
Textual hegemony
Revival post-1984
Gurbani Kirtan
Performed Kirtan
Kirtan education
Status, audience, patrons
Kirtan sohila โ The time for sleep
5 Saying Qaul , Being Qawwal , Singing Qawwali
Qaul โ sayings
Sama โ spaces
Musical absences
Qawwali sounds
Textual turns
Performers, patrons and audiences
Dua (Concluding supplication)
6 Drumming Devotion
Folk and Clessicul
Folk residues
Becoming folk
Commercial, filmi, popular
Becoming devotional
Shifting texts and religious fixity
Recoveries
7 Finale
Pandits and pundits
Minor music
Digital disintegration
Reprise
Music Clip List
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
