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Author : Indira Menon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Madras Quartet written by Indira Menon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social attitudes and an attempt to view the contribution of women music makers who represent Karnatak tradition.
Author : Indira Menon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (837 download)
Download or read book The Madras Quartet written by Indira Menon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Lindsay Levine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442242086
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book This Thing Called Music written by Victoria Lindsay Levine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the world—characterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence. Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areas—North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East—crossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world. Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of “this thing called music.”
Author : Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538106868
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Tamils written by Vijaya Ramaswamy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tamils have an unbroken history of more than two thousand years. Tamil, the language they speak, is one of the oldest living languages in the world. The only people comparable to the Tamils in terms of their hoary past and vibrant present would be the Jews with one marked difference. The Tamils have always had their homeland 'Tamilaham' (alternately pronounced and spelt 'Tamizhaham') known today as Tamil Nadu which to them represents their mother and is revered by them as 'Tamizh Tai' literally ‘Tamil Mother’. This is in striking contrast to the Jews who have been through a long and arduous struggle to gain their homeland, a deeply contested site to this day with Hebrewisation of Israel being a key marker of Jewish identity in the region. Tamils, by contrast have a clear numerical majority in the region that now comprises Tamil Nadu and the language unites rather than divides adherents of different faiths. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Tamils contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Tamils.
Author : Amanda J. Weidman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388057
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern written by Amanda J. Weidman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial modernity, nationalist ideology, and South Indian regional politics. As Amanda J. Weidman demonstrates, in order for Karnatic music to be considered classical music, it needed to be modeled on Western classical music, with its system of notation, composers, compositions, conservatories, and concerts. At the same time, it needed to remain distinctively Indian. Weidman argues that these contradictory imperatives led to the emergence of a particular “politics of voice,” in which the voice came to stand for authenticity and Indianness. Combining ethnographic observation derived from her experience as a student and performer of South Indian music with close readings of archival materials, Weidman traces the emergence of this politics of voice through compelling analyses of the relationship between vocal sound and instrumental imitation, conventions of performance and staging, the status of women as performers, debates about language and music, and the relationship between oral tradition and technologies of printing and sound reproduction. Through her sustained exploration of the way “voice” is elaborated as a trope of modern subjectivity, national identity, and cultural authenticity, Weidman provides a model for thinking about the voice in anthropological and historical terms. In so doing, she shows that modernity is characterized as much by particular ideas about orality, aurality, and the voice as it is by regimes of visuality.
Author : Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy written by Lakshmi Subramanian and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In moving from the quiet courtyards of Tanjore to the concert halls of Madras, the social context of music and performance underwent a striking transformation. Traditional music was also used in the freedom movement as an emblem of India's uniqueness and independent identity. Departing from conventional scholarship on the subject, Lakshmi Subramnian presents a distinctive account of the making of a modern classical tradition." "Subramanian traces the changes in traditional music in south India as it adapted to the necessities of colonial and postcolonial social realities. Her engaging narrative of the production of knowledge about music and the related institution- building process raise larger questions of identify and imagination. She also discusses the influence of nationalism in the creation of an auditory habit."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : V.S. Narasimhan
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Carnatic & Western Music written by V.S. Narasimhan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I too have a dream”, says V.S. Narasimhan, author of this book. Someday the sound of St. Thyagaraja’s compositions should be heard in places like Carnegie Hall! It is my desire and vision that cello should become a prominent instrument of Carnatic music both as solo and accompanying instrument just as the violin is. The grandeur of the tone of a cello in Carnatic music is something I hear in my head. Similarly bass players could incorporate Carnatic music ornamentation techniques. Viola should also become a featured component of Carnatic music as a solo and as accompaniment. If these instruments which cover a wide range of frequencies get into the hands of skillful artists, the result would be a novel symphonic style of arrangement that would gain a broader international audience and would be a transformative event bringing new dimensions to Carnatic music. What I hear in these tracks is the voice on the other side of the world, seemingly divergent yet at the same time oddly familiar, using the same classic instrumentation to provide yet another compelling new musical paradigm in the continuing evolution of the string quartet form. One can only wonder what Papa Haydn would have thought if somehow by a miracle of time travel he were to hear this music!…Grammy award winner, David Balakrishnan, Founder/ Member of Turtle Island String Quartet: Together, the musicians of the Madras String Quartet played authentic, grace oriented Carnatic music, setting off its beauty against the harmonic richness of the Western classical idiom. It was beautiful. Bangalore Mirror, March 1, 2010 A Capella twist to Thyagaraja kriti “Brova Bharamma” gets a new sound, thanks to ace violinist V. S. Narasimhan The Hindu, Chennai, Friday, July 22, 2016
Author : Richard K. Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195331370
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Theorizing the Local written by Richard K. Wolf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades, the "globalized" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions of South Asia have remained relatively unexplored. Theorizing the Local provides a challenging and compelling counterperspective to the "globalized," arguing for the value of comparative microstudies that are not concerned primarily with the flow of capital and neoliberal politics. What does it mean for musical activities to be local in an increasingly interconnected world? To what extent can theoretical activity be localized to the very acts of making music, interacting, and composing? Theorizing the Local offers glimpses into rich musical worlds of south and west Asia, worlds which have never before been presented in a single volume. The authors cross the traditional borders of scholarship and region, exploring in unmatched detail a vast array of musical practices and significant ethnographic discoveries-from Nepal to India, India to Sri Lanka, Pakistan to Iran. Enriched by audio and video tracks on an extensive companion Web site, Theorizing the Local is an important study of South Asian musical traditions that offers a broader understanding of 21st-century music of the world.
Author : Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351383124
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book New Mansions For Music written by Lakshmi Subramanian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism look at one of the most ancient and rigorous classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system, and the kind of changes it underwent once it was relocated from traditional spaces of temples and salons to the public domain. Nineteenth-century Madras led the way in the transformation that Karnatik music underwent as it encountered the forces of modernization and standardization. This study also contributes to our understanding of the experience of modernity in India through the prism of music. The role of Madras city as patron and custodian of the performing arts, especially classical music offers an invaluable perspective on the larger processes of modernization in India. As the title suggests, the areas of classical music, which were most influenced by these developments were pedagogy or modes of musical transmission, performance conventions and criticism or music appreciation. Once the urban elite demanded the widening of the teaching of classical music, traditional modes of music instruction underwent a major change involving a breakdown of the gurushishya parampara or the tradition wherein the teacher imparted knowledge to a chosen few. Caste and kinship were important determining factors for the selection of these shishyas or students, but in modern institutions like the universities these boundaries had to be demolished. Simultaneously, the public staging of music brought the performer into a new relationship with his audience, especially as the art form became subject to validation and criticism by the newly emerging music critic. In an immensely readable book peppered with anecdotes and conversations with leading musicians and critics of the day, as well as humorous visual representations, part caricature, part satirical, the author describes a rapidly changing society and its new look in early twentieth century Madras.
Author : Davesh Soneji
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226768090
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Unfinished Gestures written by Davesh Soneji and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810867656
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music written by Nicole V. Gagné and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works in a tonal idiom, which drew chiefly on classical, romantic, and folk models. Then the postmodern sensibility followed, with its enthusiasm for the unprecedented availability of virtually every type of music, andit engendered numerous sub-groups, including multiculturalism, minimalism, multimedia, and free improvisation. Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music focuses on modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide from 1890to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries, with more than 60 entries explaining the methods, styles, and acoustic and electronic media peculiar tonew music, and over 350 entries giving essential information on the lives and work of the people who have composed and performed that music. Those entries also include pop, jazz, and rock composer/musicians whose work either overlaps the realm of classical music or else is so radical within its own field that it merits discussion in this context. This book is a must for anyone, musician or non-musician, student or professional, who seeks to research and learn more about any significant aspect of modern and contemporary classical music worldwide.
Author : Douglas M. Knight
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819569062
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Balasaraswati written by Douglas M. Knight and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century
Author : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio,Bombay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi and published by All India Radio,Bombay. This book was released on 1941-12-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-12-1941 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 100 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. VI, No. 24 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 33-96 ARTICLE: Planning A Garden AUTHOR: Audrey Ellvers KEYWORDS: Garden, Water, Flowers Document ID: INL-1940-41 (J-D) Vol- II (12)
Author : All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book AKASHVANI written by All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi. This book was released on 1972-06-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 25 JUNE, 1972 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 56 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXXVII, No. 27 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 17-54 ARTICLE: 1. Challenges To Indian Democracy 2. Self-Sufficiency Through Petro- Chemicals 3. Indian Machine Tools 4. The Trust Racket 5. Sri Lanka- Ceylon 6. The Novels of Raja Rao 7. Geological Survey of India 8. Folk Literature of South India 9. Sociology of Science 10. Growing Lawlessness And Judiciary AUTHOR: 1. I. G. Menon 2. J. J. Mehta 3. A. S. Rajan 4. S. L. Sah 5. Rajini Asrani 6. D. K. Chakraborty 7. Bala Sundram 8. Dr. S. K. Nayar 9. Shanti Narain 10. Rama Shankar Mohapatra KEYWORDS : 1. Indian Redeems Its Pledge, Challenges Confronting Democracy, Parliamentary Democracy 2. Offline Project, Import Substitution, Synthetic Rubber, Detergents, 3. Machine Tool Designing, Supply of Instruments, Export 4. Corporate funds, Manipulation, Channelling through Trust 5. Trincomalee, Insurmountable Problems, Five-Crore Credit by India, Tamils-Registered Citizens 6. Kanthapura, Main Strands, Matrimonial Theme 7. Wide Functions, Substantial Achievement, Collaboration With Other Countries 8. Literature By The People, Tamil Folk Literature, Kannada Folk Literature, Malayalam Folk Literature 9. Changes All Around, Relationship Between Man And Man, Role of Science, Gandhian Discipline Document ID : APE-1972 (A-J) Vol-II-12 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.
Author : Publications Division (India), New Delhi
Publisher : Publications Division (India),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book AKASHVANI written by Publications Division (India), New Delhi and published by Publications Division (India),New Delhi. This book was released on 1963-01-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 27 JANUARY, 1963 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 64 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXVII. No. 56 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 6, 9-55, 61 ARTICLE: 1. On The Home Front 2. China’s Propaganda Objective 3. Defending Freedom 4. The New Spirit AUTHOR: 1. Shriman Narayan 2. Prem Bhatia 3. K. Iswara Dutt 4. Valerian Cardinal Gracias KEYWORDS : 1. Economic mobilization,need to hold the price line, cooperative consumer stores, to win peace on the social and economic fronts 2. Attempt to divide the people from the government,to subvert Indian Nationalism, showing popularity of china with the tribals, quoting international oinion 3. Complacency rudely shattered, need to gear up defence production, revival of India’s martial traditions, national cohesion, show me your facts”, 4. The wisdom of the spirit, a shake up needed, Document ID : APE-1963 (J-F) Vol-I-04 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.
Author : K.G. Vijayakrishnan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198886
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Grammar of Carnatic Music written by K.G. Vijayakrishnan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/mid eighteenth century. Earlier varieties or 'incarnations' of Indian music elaborately described in many musical treatises are only of historical relevance today as the music described is quite different from current practices. It is argued that earlier varieties may not have survived because they failed to meet the three crucial requirements for a language-like organism to survive i.e., a robust community of practitioners/listeners which the author calls the Carnatic Music Fraternity, a sizeable body of musical texts and a felt communicative need. In fact, the central thesis of the book is that Carnatic music, like language, survived and evolved from early/mid eighteenth century when these three requirements were met for the first time in the history of Indian music. The volume includes a foreword by Paul Kiparsky.
Author : Vijay Prakash Singha
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8193704940
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (937 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Hindustani Classical Music: A Beginners Guide written by Vijay Prakash Singha and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Hindustani Classical Music: A Guidebook for Beginners is Vijay Singha's comprehensive guide to savour and appreciate classical music. Written in a simple and easy-to-comprehend style, this book delves into the understanding of raga sangeet, semi-classical and fusion music, raga sangeet in Hindi films, as well as the future of classical music in India.
