Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr Yet scientists and mathematicians have

Yet scientists and mathematicians have spent generations searching the far reaches of the universe for that one elusive state—nothingness

the questionable necessity of detonating atom bombs over Hiroshima & Nagasaki

sometimes infuriating

An anniversary they’ll never forget

Whilst struggling to cope with her grief

Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr Yet scientists and mathematicians haveAn ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and