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	Publisher: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Nepal
	Author: Pirkko Moisala
	Language: English
	Pages: 301 (20 B/W Illustrations)
	Cover: Paperback
	8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
	Weight 250 gm
	Edition: 2018
	ISBN: 9789937331845
	NAO257

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Contents

I. POINTS OF DEPARTURE	1
1 Ethno-musicology	1
2 Ethnography	5
3 Cultural Premises	8
II. STUDY ON THE GURUNGS	11
1. The Gurungs	11
A. Belief System	13
B. Economy	15
C. Society System	16
D. Life According to Gender	19
2 Nation-building as the Cultural Context	23
3 Fieldwork	28
4 Klinu Village in 1975-76	38
A. Belief System	39
B. Economy	41
C. Outside Contacts	42
D. Social System	44
E. Education	46
F. Yearly Cycle	47
5. Tendencies toward Change: Klinu in 1985	48
A. Belief System	50
B. Social System	51
C. Economy	52
D.Education	54
6. Gurung Cognitive Premises	56
A. Gurung Ontology	57
B. Conceptualization of Time	60
C. Collective Emphasis	63
D.Ethnic and Cultural Identity	65
Ill. GURUNG MUSIC	71
1. Village Music: 1975-76	71
A. Music-makers and Learning	73
B. Music in the Rites after Death	80
C. Music of Other Castes	89
D. The Yearly Cycle of Music	91
2. Musical Thinking	93
A. Classification of Music	93
B. Conceptualization of Music	98
3. Musical Events	105
A. The Rod!	106
B. Song Duel	111
4. Musical Occasions	114
A. The Serga	115
B. The Ghamtu	127
C. The Krisna Caritra.	187
D. The Thetar	205
5. Continuity and Change: Village Music in 1985	215
A. Changes in the Ghamtu	218
B. Celebration of the Baisakh Purne	223
C. Music of the Youth	227
D. Attitudes towards Music	230
6. Urban Gurung Music	232
A. Urban Musicians	240
B. Rural-urban Transmission	243
IV. CONCLUSIONS	247
1 Gurung Cultural Premises and Music	247
2 Parallelism of Cultural Premises and Music	252
3 Quality of Change	265
Bibliography	269
Index	283

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