Echoes of Translation Audibility and Relationality in Indian Jewish Women's Songs

by Schultz, Anna C.

• ISBN13: 9780190626914
• ISBN10: 0190626917
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2026-04-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Anna C. Schultz is Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she is also an associate member of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and a member of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. As an ethnomusicologist and cultural historian, the twin issues animating her research are music's power to activate profound religious experience and suture communities, and music as power, that is, music's role in structuring and dismantling caste, race, gender, nation, and class. Her first book, Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
About the Companion Website

Prologue: Women's Collectivities
Introduction
Chapter 1. Women's Song Notebooks: Archive, repertoire, memory
Chapter 2. Domesticating Translation in Davidachi Gite
Chapter 3. Translation's Promise: Jewish Kirtan in Colonial India
Chapter 4. "India is our Motherland": Regendering, Reviving, and Relocating Jewish Kirtan
Afterword

Bibliography
Glossary
Index