Indigenous people, international students, immigrants, and refugee families are particularly
vulnerable populations that experience a lack of sustainability for various reasons, including …

How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production?
This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical …

The recent emigration from Indian Punjab has included Spain into the global Sikh diaspora.
This group is selected to study the production of 'diaspora space'and the transformation of …

This article discusses the canonisation and institutionalisation of Sikh sacred music (kirtan)
at the courts of the ten Sikh gurus and the later Sikh maharajas in Lahore and Patiala. At the …

The 1947 Partition of India triggered one of the major lows of forced migration in the history
of humanity. Dominant narratives on the history of Partition describe the exodus primarily as …

Despite cohabiting overlapping social spheres, north India's music traditions are too often
studied in isolation from one another, negating their inherent interrelatedness. Adopting a …

This chapter provides a holistic description of life for Sikhs in the United States through an
examination of migration patterns, contemporary demographic and socioeconomic trends …

‪ In this paper, I expand on the concepts of “worlding” and “transnational affect” to analyse
how the sounding of sacred song in transnational spaces animates “affective alliances” that …

In Sikh religious practice, listening to sung sacred poetry (sabad kīrtan) is the chief means of
worship and a central part of everyday life for Sikhs around the world. While it is the sacred …

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist,
Islamic, and Sikh traditions. In academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has …