...Michiko Urita This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” demonstrates how, even as religious strife is pervasive in India, classical Hindustani music has remained a transreligious and intercommunal medium. Indeed, music is one of the few domains in which Hindu-Muslim...

...Michiko Urita This autobiographical, sociological, and musicological essay, written for a symposium on xenophilia, concerns how the love of a foreign culture can lead to a better understanding and renewed love of one’s own. The author, a Japanese musicologist, studied Hindustani music with North...

... professor of ethnomusicology at Kogakkan University in Ise, has received a four- year grant, from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, for research on the history and future of the imperial enthronement ceremony. Her article Transreligious and Intercommunal: Hindustani Music in Classical...

... in what to do with one s faith apart from believing in and practicing it. In her article here, Urita draws our attention to the mother of a Hindustani musician who believes that her style of dhrupad transcends religious differences. As she tells Urita, I am Hindu, while my husband was Muslim, and he...

... with much feeling about the lives of ordinary Indians, especially in his novel his in especially Indians, ofordinary lives about the muchfeeling with helater wrote and children; street and servants with playing Hindustani, speaking to “new-caught sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child...