Professional Weeping:
Music, Affect, and Hierarchy in a
South Indian Folk Performance Art

Paul D. Greene

Introduction
1. A Funeral
2. Oppari in Cultural Perspectives
3. Musical and Expressive Features of the Oppari Genre
4. A Performance Analysis
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Notes
List of Works Cited
Appendix: Text of M.G.R.'s Oppari

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