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Caste

By: Anna Stirr
In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Edited by: Janet Sturman
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music
Keywords:caste

The term caste, with its roots in the term casta (used for Spanish and Portuguese colonial systems of skin color–based hierarchy), is bound up worldwide with histories of inequality and difference related to concepts of race, ethnicity, and class. The ...

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  Stirr, A. (2019). Caste. In J. Sturman (Ed.), The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture (Vol. 1, pp. 473-475). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n143
  
  Stirr, Anna. "Caste." In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Sturman, Janet, 473-75. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n143.
  
  Stirr, A. 2019. Caste. In: Janet Sturman Editor, 2019. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 473-475 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n143> [Accessed 10 May 2021].
  
  Stirr, Anna. "Caste." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 473-75. SAGE Knowledge. 10 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n143.
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