An ethnographic look at intimate politics through music, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines Nepali dohori song performance. Dohori is 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 accompanying dance, performed between men and women, with a primary focus on romantic love. In the aftermath of Nepal’s ten-year civil war, rapid political change and increased mobility are redefining concepts of appropriate intimate relationships and their associated systems of exchange. Dohori gets at the heart of tensions around ethnic, caste, and gender difference, as it promotes potentially destabilizing musical and poetic interactions, love, sex and marriage across these social divides.