PROF Richard Widdess' Outputs (3)

North India (2015)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2015). North India. In M. Church (Ed.), The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions (139-159). Boydell Press

A contribution to a multi-author volume characterising the "classical" music traditions of the world. The chapter covers North Indian classical music as a form of knowledge and practice, the principal theoretical concepts, the historical and social c... Read More about North India.

Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music (2015)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2015). Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music. In F. Orsini, & K. B. Schofield (Eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0062.08

Dāphā bhajan is a style of devotional song performance practised by Newar men in the towns of the Kathmandu Valley. Although it is now primarily the farming community who maintain it, it originated in the court culture of the Newar kings in the 17th... Read More about Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.

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.