{"product_id":"the-scattered-court-9780226825458","title":"The Scattered Court","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Using a multiperspectival methodology, Williams crafts a narrative ripe with complexity, ambiguity, and unexpected connection. This pathbreaking book will reshape how historians of South Asia consider issues of music and gender, the impact of \u003ci\u003enawabi\u003c\/i\u003e culture beyond courts, emotion and aesthetics, modernity, and the spread of Hindustani music.” * Anna Christine Schultz, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e“Weaving together material from untapped texts in a range of South Asian vernaculars, Williams’s work provides an unparalleled study of north Indian art music’s transregional flows, its complex social histories, and the textures and politics of its performance.” * Davesh Soneji, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e“This is simply the best book on Hindustani music I know. Magisterial, erudite, and superb are inadequate terms for the profound scholarship, deep knowledge, and vast terrain Williams incorporates, made all the more accessible by his outstanding writing.” * Daniel Neuman, University of California, Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1   Courts in Crisis: Listening to Art Music in Mughal Bengal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2   The Musical Ascent of Calcutta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3   Rethinking Nawabi Decadence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4   Music at Matiyaburj\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5   Songs from behind the Curtain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6  Shared Tears\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732929884503,"sku":"9780226825458","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226825458.jpg?v=1719998994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-scattered-court-9780226825458","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}