BOB VAN DER LINDEN
HISTORIAN (South Asia - Music)
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Books
Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity: Art, Music and Philology, London: Routledge, London: Routledge, 2025.
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Romantic Nationalism in India: Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas, Leiden: Brill, 2024.
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Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music, London: Routledge, 2018.
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Music and Empire in Britain and India: Identity, Internationalism, and Cross-Cultural Communication, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
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Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyahs, New Delhi: Manohar, 2008.
Book Chapters & Articles
"Aryanism, Martial Race Theory, and Sikh Identity", History of Humanities: forthcoming.
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"Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age" in Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang, eds., The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022: 99-126.
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"Emily's Eden: Contemporary Sikh Drawings by Emily de Klerk", Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 17, 4, 2021: 450-67.
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“Rhythms of the Raj: Music in Colonial South Asia” in Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke, eds., Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia, London: Routledge, 2021: 373-85.
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"Global Connections: Attuning to European Music Abroad" in Klaus Nathaus and Martin Rempe, eds., Musicking in Twentieth-Century Europe, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020: 393-416.
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"Marginalizing the Muslim Ustad: Hindu Nationalism and Music in Modern North India" in Dina Siegel and Frank Bovenkerk, eds., Crime and Music, Berlin: Springer, 2020: 33-51.
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"Songs to the Jinas and of the Gurus: Historical Comparisons between Jain and Sikh Devotional Music", Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 15, 1-2, 2019: 230-45.
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“Non-Western National Music and Empire in Global History: Interactions, Uniformities, and Comparisons”, Journal of Global History, 10, 3, 2015: 431-56.
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“Sikh Sacred Music and Rabindra Sangit: A Comparison of Music in Imperial Culture”, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 11, 1-2, 2015: 133-48.
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“Pre-Twentieth Century Sikh Sacred Music: the Mughals, Courtly Patronage and Canonisation”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38, 2, 2015: 141-55.
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“History versus Tradition Again? A Response to Bhai Baldeep Singh”, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 8, 2, 2012: 247-51.
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“Sikh Sacred Music, Empire and World Music: Aesthetics and Historical Change”, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 7, 2, 2011: 383-97.
“Percy Grainger and Empire: Kipling, Racialism and All the World’s ‘Folk Music’”, British Music: The Journal of the British Music Society, 32, 2010: 13-24.
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“Music, Theosophical Spirituality, and Empire: the British Modernist Composers Cyril Scott and John Foulds”, Journal of Global History, 3, 2, 2008: 163-82.
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“Sikh Music and Empire: the Moral Representation of Self in Music”, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 4, 1, 2008: 1-15.
Reviews
Review of Harry Liebersohn, Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age, H-Soz-Kult, 6 September 2021.
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Review of Desmond Scott, Lewis Foreman and Leslie De'Ath, eds., The Cyril Scott Companion: Unity in Diversity, North American British Studies Association Reviews, 6, 1, 2019: 14-15.
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Review of Nalini Ghuman, Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical Imagination, 1897-1947, ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 24, 1, 2017: 159-61.
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Review of Virinder S. Kalra, Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 39, 3, 2016: 700-2.
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CD Release Note, “Songs of Quest and Inspiration: Cyril Scott – Ralph Vaughan Williams", British Music Society News, 132, 2011: 475.
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Liner notes, Songs of Cyril Scott and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robbert Muuse, baritone/Micha van Weers, piano, Challenge CD, 2011.
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Review of Verne Dusenbery, Sikhs at Large and Verne Dusenbery and Darshan S. Tatla, eds., Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 45, 2, 2011: 283-7.
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Review of Willem van Schendel, A History of Bangladesh, IIAS Newsletter, 53, 2010: 36.
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Review of Partha Mitter, The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant Garde 1922-1947, Contemporary South Asia, 18, 1, 2010: 113-4.
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Review of Amanda J. Weidman, Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India, Contemporary South Asia, 16, 2, 2008: 256-7.
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“Individuality, Literature and Censorship: Gao Xingjiang and China”, IIAS Newsletter, 47, 2008: 28-9.
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Review of Pál Nyíri, Scenic Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority, Canadian Journal of History, 42, 3, 2007: 579-81.
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“Music and Manipulation”, review of Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, eds., Music and Manipulation, IIAS Newsletter, 44, 2007: 35 [reprinted in SPAFA Journal, 18, 2, 2008: 17-23].
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Review of B. R. Nanda, ed., The Collected Works of Lala Lajpat Rai (vols. 1-6), Contemporary South Asia, 15, 3, 2006: 354-6.
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Review of John Whelpton, A History of Nepal, Canadian Journal of History, 41, 2, 2006: 417-9.
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© 2024 Bob van der Linden