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Manaranjanie, K. D. Lasanthi. Music and healing rituals of Sri Lanka: Their relevance for community music therapy and medical ethnomusicology. S. Godage & Brothers, 2013.

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Abeywickrama, Maya. Harmonious illusions: A study of Western influence on the music of Sri Lanka. Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2006.

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Claus-Bachmann, Martina. Traditional music culture in Sri Lanka - Dance (CD-ROM): A multimedial-interactive journey to an unfamiliar music culture. ulme-mini-verlag, 2000.

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Claus-Bachmann, Martina. Traditional Music Culture in Sri Lanka - Drum (CD-ROM): A multimedial-interactive journey to an unfamiliar music culture. ulme-mini-verlag, 2000.

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Merrick, Gordon. Now let's talk about music. Alyson Books, 1997.

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Kalalaya School of Dance & Music (Colombo, Sri Lanka), ed. Kalalaya. Sri Lanka Tamil Women's Union, 1999.

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Malm, Krister. The baila of Sri Lanka and the calypso of Trinidad: The mediaization of two kinds of music with topical texts, with special reference to their communicative properties. Swedish National Collections of Music, 1985.

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Piyasena, S. Kalu Jūliyē ridī jubiliya saha jemis gē nidahasa. Phāsṭ Pabliṣin, 2009.

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Music of Sri Lanka. Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2008.

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Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Sykes, Jim. Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2020.

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Field, Garrett. Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka. University of California Press, 2017.

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Modernizing composition: Sinhala song, poetry, and politics in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. 2017.

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Merrick, Gordon. Now Let's Talk about Music. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014.

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Merrick, Gordon. Now Let's Talk About Music. Avon, 1985.

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Merrick, Gordon. Now Let's Talk about Music. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014.

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Merrick, Gordon. Now Let's Talk about Music. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2014.

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Morris, Paul. One Sound: Traditional Buddhist Music from Tibet, China, Vietnam, Korea, Sri Lanka, and Japan with Book. Ellipsis Arts, 2000.

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Sykes, Jim. The Island Space. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912024.003.0010.

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In this chapter, the author discusses the historical development of Sinhala music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Sri Lanka (called Ceylon until 1972) in relation to colonial surveillance and conceptions of Sri Lanka as an island space. The chapter theorizes “islands” for music studies and compares Sri Lankan discussions on indigeneity and “movements to” the island with those on the Caribbean. The chapter considers mid-twentieth century anxieties that the Sinhalese “have no music” because their music is “too hybrid.” It then argues that in recent decades, music has been a crucial

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Sykes, Jim. The Musical Gift. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912024.001.0001.

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The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka’s music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by ethnic and religious difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that the genres we currently recognize as Sri Lanka’s esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity but were gifts to gods intended to foster protection and/or healing. Noting that the currently assumed link between music and identity helped produce the narratives of ethnic difference that drove Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983–2009), Sykes contends that the promotion of hi

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Sykes, Jim. The Cartography of Culture Zones. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912024.003.0006.

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This chapter criticizes the “cartography of culture zones”—the standard way cultural history is described in Sri Lanka—which locates traditional cultures in ethnically defined, regionally based culture zones. First, the chapter expands on the book’s previous exploration of Sinhala and Tamil musics by introducing the musics of Sri Lankan Muslims (an ethnic and religious category), Christians (a heterogenous religious category), Burghers (Eurasians), Kaffirs (Sri Lankans of African descent), and Väddas (the indigenous population). The chapter argues that scholars tend to adopt the European-deriv

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Sykes, Jim. Beravā Secrecy and the Hoarding of Musical Gifts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912024.003.0004.

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This chapter provides an introduction to Sinhala Buddhist music-making, focusing on the domain of drumming in religious ritual. These genres, with their accompanying dances, have become the most esteemed traditional music genres in Sri Lanka. The chapter also considers the ways that nationalism has influenced the use and placement of these genres, discussing a riot that broke out when Sinhala students agitated for Sinhala drumming to be performed at the head of a graduation ceremony at the Tamil-dominated University of Jaffna. The chapter provides basic information on drumming for the caste of

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Sykes, Jim. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912024.003.0001.

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The introduction to The Musical Gift discusses problems (for music studies and the world at large) with assuming there is an inherent connection between music, the self, expression, and identity. The chapter argues that while many scholars have noted the historical emergence of these links in European modernity, there is a tendency in scholarly research and public culture to subordinate “ontologies of the otherwise” to European-derived notions of the link between music and identity. The author argues that while music scholars have spent much time questioning what music is, the same energy has

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Leonard, Karen. The South Asian Americans. Greenwood, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216016816.

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Immigrants from South Asian countries are among the fastest growing segment of our population. This work, designed for students and interested readers, provides the first in-depth examination of recent South Asian immigrant groups—their history and background, current facts, comparative cultures, and contributions to contemporary American life. Groups discussed include Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Nepalis, and Afghans. The topics covered include patterns of immigration, adaption to American life and work, cultural traditions, religious traditions, women's roles, the family,

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