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currentmusicology-6663	Singh, Davindar	Sykes, Jim. 2018. The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka. Oxford: Oxford University Press.	2021	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4060	182	40	It grounds these histories in Sykes’s ethnographic study of Sinhalese Buddhist drummers’ attempts to situate their practice within and beyond discourses of identity. The book also contains ethnographic research on the place of sound, music, and musicians in Sri Lanka’s recent genocidal conflicts, which Sykes sees as the bloody effects of these politics of identity.	cache/currentmusicology-6663.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-6663.txt