City of Lyrics by Nathan L. M. Tabor - 9781469690216

City of LyricsOrdinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi\nAuthor(s): Nathan L. M. Tabor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469690216, 978-1469690216\nSynopsis\nFor centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mush??irahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mush??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 mush??irah in eighteenth-century Delhi. Scores of poets composed two-line lyric poems, called ?hazals, that they muttered, sang, shouted, and spat out in contentious salon spaces across Indias largest metropolis. Delhis mush??irahs circulated lyrics, satires, and songs for both common and elite poets, who tr.