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" Hindu Festivals, Noise, and the Politics of Soundscape in Mumbai, India "
Lynch, Julian Anthony
Lepowsky, Maria;Radano, Ronald
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113609
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TLpq2359472238
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Lepowsky, Maria
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Lynch, Julian Anthony
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Hindu Festivals, Noise, and the Politics of Soundscape in Mumbai, India\ Lynch, Julian AnthonyLepowsky, Maria;Radano, Ronald
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The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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316
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In the Indian megacity of Mumbai, loudness is power. Over the last fifty years, politicians have emerged as the leading patrons of the exuberant music-oriented events comprising Hindu religious festivals. As sponsors of Hindu festival processions and other events, Mumbai’s political elite have discovered a medium through which they can connect with massive crowds of young, ecstatic festival attendees, tapping into the affective potential of musical sound while imbuing the message of their party with a sense of divine power and authority associated with a festival’s idiomatic forms of ritual musical expression. Sponsorship of festival events has proven to be a critical campaign strategy for political parties, especially those aligned with Hindu nationalist and other chauvinistic ideological platforms. The result has been the systematization of political patronage in Hindu festival organization, as well as the growth of a prolonged, industrialized "festival season," saturated with political funds and dense with increasingly loud celebrations. For the political sponsors of any given festival event in Mumbai, drowning out sonic competitors is the key to demonstrating one’s own vitality and capacity for leadership. Politicians and their collaborators thereby go to great lengths to ensure that their own festival event will produce the loudest sound, even committing criminal acts to suppress the enforcement of noise laws. The excessively loud sound of religious festivals has come to represent the defining feature of the urban soundscape, transforming Mumbai into one of the loudest cities on earth and galvanizing the efforts of a sizeable community of local anti-noise activists who now stand as principal adversaries to the city's political elite.
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Hindu festivals
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India
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Mumbai
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Noise
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Sound studies
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Soundscape
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Radano, Ronald
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