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Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time (2022)
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Widdess, R., Sowa, A., & Sowa, R. (2022). Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time. [Video]

For the inhabitants of Bhaktapur, a historic town in Nepal, Gũlā is a sacred month. It is celebrated with processions, music, and other observances in the streets, squares and temples of the town, culminating with a festival in which Buddha statues p... Read More about Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time.

Pulling chariots, singing songs: Musical structure, performance and cultural meaning in a dāphā song from Nepal (2015)
Digital Artefact
Widdess, R. (2015). Pulling chariots, singing songs: Musical structure, performance and cultural meaning in a dāphā song from Nepal. [Cultural Musicology iZine [Online]]

How does music embody cultural meaning? What is the cultural significance of musical structure? How is music linked with other domains of human behaviour, meaning and experience in oral cultures? An approach to these questions might be based on the c... Read More about Pulling chariots, singing songs: Musical structure, performance and cultural meaning in a dāphā song from Nepal.