Name: City of Lyrics. Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi
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Author: Nathan L. M. Tabor
ISBN: 9781469690216

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City of Lyrics. Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Author

Nathan L. M. Tabor

Collection

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

Year

2025

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.5x15.5x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9781469690216

City of Lyrics. Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

Nathan L. M. Tabor (Author) · The University of North Carolina Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "City of Lyrics. Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi"

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for musha?irahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the musha?irah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions convene in person and online for hours of poetic performance. Tracing these modern gatherings back to their origins, Nathan L. M. Tabor introduces readers to the popular emergence of the musha?irah in eighteenth-century Delhi. Scores of poets composed two-line lyric poems, called ghazals, that they muttered, sang, shouted, and spat out in contentious salon spaces across India’s largest metropolis. Delhi’s musha?irahs circulated lyrics, satires, and songs for both common and elite poets, who traded and assessed words like an urban commodity that defined hierarchy, taste, and notions of delight. Via poets' verse exchanges and the histories they wrote about Dehli’s literary scene, City of Lyrics reconstructs the social networks the musha?irahs produced. By understanding the roots of this uniquely Islamic literary practice, readers will also gain insight into global popular culture today, which increasingly takes shape according to tastes and values from the Muslim world yet is enjoyed by wide audiences comprised of both Muslims and non-Muslims alike.