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Sebastian Sons A Brief History Of The Mrdangam Makers
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Book Synopsis Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History Of The Mrdangam Makers by : T. M. Krishna
Download or read book Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History Of The Mrdangam Makers written by T. M. Krishna and published by Context. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book MUSICIAN AND ACTIVIST T.M. KRISHNA INVESTIGATES THE HISTORY OF THE MRDANGAM AND MEETS THE INVISIBLE KEEPERS OF A TRADITION: THE MRDANGAM MAKERS. The mrdangam is an integral part of the Karnatik stage, its primary percussion instrument. Yet—startling as this is—the instrument as we know it is only a century old. T.M. Krishna investigates the history of the mrdangam and meets the invisible keepers of a tradition: the mrdangam makers. The making process is an intellectually, aesthetically and physically taxing one. From acquiring the skins for the circular membranes and straps to the wood for the drum, from curing the material to the final construction, and at the end of it all, making sure that it has the tone that the mrdangam player wants, mrdangam-making is also a highly nuanced operation at every stage. While several artists have been credited with the evolution of the instrument, including the stalwart Palghat Mani Iyer, none of them had knowledge of a fundamental aspect of the making: hide. The quality of the hide and how it is cured, cut, stretched, bound and braided impacts the tone, timbre and sound of the instrument. This requires a highly tuned ear and an ability to translate abstract ideas expressed by musicians into the corporeal reality of a mrdangam. Yet, their contribution to the art of the mrdangam is dismissed as labour and repair—when it is spoken of at all. There are legendary mrdangam players, yes; there are also distinguished mrdangam makers, many of them from Dalit Christian communities, who remain on the fringes of the Karnatik community. Sebastian and Sons explores the world of these artists, their history, lore and lived experience to arrive at a more organic and holistic understanding of the music that the mrdangam makes.
Download or read book A Southern Music written by T.M. Krishna and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost Karnatik vocalists today, T.M. Krishna writes lucidly and passionately about the form, its history, its problems and where it stands todayT.M. Krishna begins his sweeping exploration of the tradition of Karnatik music with a fundamental question: what is music? Taking nothing for granted and addressing readers from across the spectrum - musicians, musicologists as well as laypeople - Krishna provides a path-breaking overview of south Indian classical music.
Download or read book Spirit of Enquiry written by T. Krishna and published by India Allen Lane. This book was released on 2021 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sebastian & Sons written by T. M. Krishna and published by Context. This book was released on 2020 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Resounding Mridangam by : Erickavu N Sunil
Download or read book Resounding Mridangam written by Erickavu N Sunil and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resounding Mridangam explores the nuances of Mridangam, the majestic South-Indian drum, an inevitable accompaniment in Carnatic classical music. The book is a beautiful journey in time and history. It is designed for a wider readership comprising music students as their academic source at universities across the globe, performing musicians, followers of Indian & Western classical music, and anyone who wishes to gain interdisciplinary knowledge in music. Analysis of the physics of Mridangam would enthuse readers with a scientific bent of mind. It covers a comparative analysis of the various music genres to appreciate synergy and synthesis. The book also contains unheard vignettes of 200+ Mridangam masters. Resounding Mridangam is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1: The South Indian Classical Music Chapter 2: The Musical Instruments Chapter 3: Mridangam - Evolution & History Chapter 4: Bani - The Playing Traditions Chapter 5: Mridangam - The Structure & Components Chapter 6: The Physics of Mridangam Chapter 7: The Tala Systems Chapter 8: The Great Masters The first two chapters set the book's tone wherein the readers are introduced to Indian Classical Music's spectacular world. These chapters cover the genesis and evolution of Indian classical music and dwell into the two major Indian music genres: the Carnatic and the Hindustani. The readers are given an overview of the Indian classical music instruments from the archaic to the contemporary ones. Chapters 3 and 4 cover the history and evolution of Mridangam. The playing traditions (Bani) are narrated in great detail. These chapters will enrich the readers with the rich history and fine traditions of Mridangam playing. Chapters 5 and 6 take the readers through the anatomy and physics behind Mridangam. The readers are given the scientific aspects of this instrument, which makes Mridangam a unique one among the other classical percussion instruments. Chapter 7 takes the readers to the Tala systems (rhythmic frameworks) in Carnatic music. All Tala systems in Carnatic music are explained in detail, which would be of special interest to all music students. The last chapter is a tribute to the great masters of Mridangam on whose guidance and contributions this instrument has evolved to be a ubiquitous part of the tradition of classical music. This chapter covers unheard vignettes of 217 Mridangam masters of great reputation who classical music lovers are revering. The chapter covers information that invokes the interest of all classes of readers. Resounding Mridangam is an earnest endeavour chronicling the king of percussion instruments - the Mridangam. This book appeals to all music lovers to get a nuanced perspective of Mridangam and its fitment in the Indian Classical music milieu. It will serve as a definitive handbook of Mridangam. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Erickavu N. Sunil is an A-Grade South-Indian percussion artist in Mridangam at the All India Radio, the national public radio broadcaster of India. During the three decades of his performing career, Sunil has performed alongside many maestros, and his talent has been recognised with several awards and accolades. He left behind a successful corporate career in Information Technology to spend more time exploring, researching and understanding music. Sunil has put to best use his background in science while researching for Resounding Mridangam which is sure to leave music lovers enthralled. Prof Trichy Sankaran, the world-renowned percussion virtuoso, has written the foreword to this book.
Download or read book RESHAPING ART written by T. M. Krishna and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Music written by Michael B. Bakan and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World Music: Traditions and Transformations, fourth edition, is an introductory-level survey of diverse musics from around the world. It assumes no prior formal training or education in music, and with one brief exception avoids the use of Western music notation entirely. It is written primarily for undergraduate nonmusic majors but is equally appropriate for music majors, and is therefore ideal for courses enrolling music and nonmusic stu-dents alike"--
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Book Synopsis Art and Science of Playing Tabla by : Vijayaśaṅkara Miśra
Download or read book Art and Science of Playing Tabla written by Vijayaśaṅkara Miśra and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes rhythm notations on Tabla.
Book Synopsis Another Garland (Book 2) by : N Rajagopalan
Download or read book Another Garland (Book 2) written by N Rajagopalan and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming collection of poems and stories is sure to delight readers of all ages. With its vivid imagery, lively language, and timeless themes, Another Garland is a true masterpiece of Indian literature. Don't miss out on this unforgettable reading experience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin by : Manu S. Pillai
Download or read book The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin written by Manu S. Pillai and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nine Rupees an Hour by : Aparna Karthikeyan
Download or read book Nine Rupees an Hour written by Aparna Karthikeyan and published by Context. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pocket Paderewski by : Michael Moran
Download or read book The Pocket Paderewski written by Michael Moran and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty in Mayfair--an extraordinarily magical and inspirational musical odyssey. The concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble beginnings in the inauspicious setting of 19th-century rural Queensland. At a time when Australian concert artists were virtually unknown in Europe, he dazzled the salons of royalty, aristocratic patronage and privilege in London, Paris and the French Riviera during the glittering decades of the 1920s and 1930s ... 'With what vigour, what virtuosity and poetry this master plays the piano!' --Chronique musicale, Montreux, 5 May 1939
Book Synopsis Performance at the Urban Periphery by : Cathy Turner
Download or read book Performance at the Urban Periphery written by Cathy Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes on their cultural economy, and the environmental impacts of performance itself. This project also considers how performance responds to its context, and the potential for performance to be critical of the city’s development, and of its own compromises. Bringing together perspectives from the humanities, natural and social sciences, the book takes a multi-faceted analytical view of live performance, connecting contemporary with heritage forms, and human with more-than-human actors. The three sections, themed around heritage, everyday life, and future ecologies, will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, heritage studies, ecology and art history.
Book Synopsis Science and Religion in India by : Renny Thomas
Download or read book Science and Religion in India written by Renny Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists’ religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of ‘conflict’ and ‘complementarity’. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.
Book Synopsis Anthropocene Ecologies of Food by : Simon C. Estok
Download or read book Anthropocene Ecologies of Food written by Simon C. Estok and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture. The authors draw connections between humans and the entire process of global food production, focusing on the broad implications these processes have within the geographical and cultural context of India. Each chapter analyzes and critiques existing agricultural/food practices, and representations of aspects of food through various media (such as film, literature, and new media) as they relate to global issues generally and Indian contexts specifically, correcting the omission of analyses focused on the Global South in virtually all of the work that has been done on "Anthropocene ecologies of food." This unique volume employs an ecocritical framework that connects food with the land, in physical and virtual communities, and the book as a whole interrogates the meanings and implications of the Anthropocene itself.
Book Synopsis Voice of the Veena, S. Balachander by : Vikram Sampath
Download or read book Voice of the Veena, S. Balachander written by Vikram Sampath and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life of Sundaram Balachander, 1927-1990, Indian Veena player.
