Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee CommunityUniversity of California Press, 03/06/2002 - 337 من الصفحات In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in place," but at the same time they have physically and psychologically constructed Dharamsala as "not Tibet," as a temporary resting place to which many are unable or unwilling to become attached. Not surprisingly, this community struggles with notions of home, displacement, ethnic identity, and assimilation. Diehl's ethnography explores the contradictory realities of cultural homogenization, hybridity, and concern about ethnic purity as they are negotiated in the everyday lives of individuals. In this way, she complicates explanations of culture change provided by the popular idea of "global flow." Diehl's accessible, absorbing narrative argues that the exiles' focus on cultural preservation, while crucial, has contributed to the development of essentialist ideas of what is truly "Tibetan." As a result, "foreign" or "modern" practices that have gained deep relevance for Tibetan refugees have been devalued. Diehl scrutinizes this tension in her discussion of the refugees' enthusiasm for songs from blockbuster Hindi films, the popularity of Western rock and roll among Tibetan youth, and the emergence of a new genre of modern Tibetan music. Diehl's insight into the soundscape of Dharamsala is enriched by her own experiences as the keyboard player for a Tibetan refugee rock group called the Yak Band. Her groundbreaking study reveals the importance of music as a site where official and personal, old and new representations of Tibetan culture meet and where different notions of "Tibetan-ness" are being imagined, performed, and debated. |
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There Is a Tension in Our Hearts Constructing the Rich Cultural Heritage of Tibet | 63 |
Taking Refuge in and from India Film Songs Angry Mobs and Other Exilic Pleasures and Fears | 107 |
The West as Surrogate ShangriLa Rock and Roll and Rangzen as Style and Ideology | 150 |
The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hammered Down Making Modern Tibetan Music | 181 |
Little Jolmo Bird in the Willow Grove Crafting Tibetan Song Lyrics | 213 |
A Peek Through Ragged Tent Flaps and Heavens Door Concerts That Rupture and Bond | 240 |
Echoes Cycles and Their Implications | 269 |
Notes | 277 |
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Ah-Ka-Ma arrived artistic audience Band's betan Buddhist Calkowski cassette celebration chang chapter Chinese community's concert contemporary context creativity cultural preservation Dalai Lama dance Delek despite Dharamsala discussed displacement dranyen exile experience expression fact feel foreign friends Gaddi genre global guitar Hindi film songs homeland identity Indian Inji Kalachakra keyboard Lama's Lhanzom Lhasa listeners McLeod Ganj modern Tibetan music modern Tibetan songs monks Mundgod Nepal Ngodup night Norbu opera Paljor particular Phuntsok play political popular Rangzen refugee community refugee youth relationships religious rock and roll rock music role sense settlements Shangri-La singing social sounds stage style Tashi teacher Tenzin Thubten Tibet Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Children's Village Tibetan community Tibetan culture Tibetan diaspora Tibetan government-in-exile Tibetan language Tibetan musicians Tibetan refugees Tibetan youth Tibetans living tion TIPA TIPA's traditional Tibetan Tsering West Western words Yak Band young Tibetans
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الصفحة 32 - Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least two, and this plurality of vision gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions, an awareness that to borrow a phrase from music is contrapuntal.
الصفحة 3 - What we have to see is not just "a tradition" but a selective tradition: an intentionally selective version of a shaping past and a pre-shaped present, which is then powerfully operative in the process of social and cultural definition and identification.
الصفحة 3 - Invented tradition" is taken to mean a set of practices, normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of a ritual or symbolic nature, which seek to inculcate certain values and norms of behavior by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past.
الصفحة 54 - Communitas breaks in through the interstices of structure, in liminality; at the edges of structure, in marginality; and from beneath structure, in inferiority. It is almost everywhere held to be sacred or "holy...
الصفحة 23 - I believe that you will live through the storm. And after, through the long age of desolation, you may still live, growing older and wiser and more patient. You will conserve the fragrance of our history and add to it the touch of your own mind. You will welcome the stranger, and teach him the rule of age and wisdom; and one of these strangers, it may be, will succeed you when you are yourself very old.