How Long to Read The Musical Gift

How Long Does it Take to Read The Musical Gift?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Musical Gift by Jim Sykes

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity, but were gifts to gods and people 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 argues that the promotion of connected music histories has a role to play in post-war reconciliation. The Musical Gift includes a study of how NGOs used music to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and it contains a theorization of the relations between musical gifts and commodities. Eschewing a binary between the gift and identity, Sykes claims the world's music history is largely a story of entanglement between both paradigms. Drawing on fieldwork conducted widely across Sri Lanka over a span of eleven years--including the first study of Sinhala Buddhist drumming in English and the first ethnography of music-making in the former warzones of the north and east--this book brings anthropology's canonic literature on "the gift" into music studies, while drawing on anthropology's recent "ontological turn" and "the new materialism" in religious studies.

How long is The Musical Gift?

The Musical Gift by Jim Sykes is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Musical Gift Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Musical Gift aloud.

What Reading Level is The Musical Gift?

The Musical Gift is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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