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Book The Dawn of Indian Music in the West

Download or read book The Dawn of Indian Music in the West written by Peter Lavezzoli and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology, an

Book Dhrupad  Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Download or read book Dhrupad Tradition and Performance in Indian Music written by Ritwik Sanyal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-creation in performance. There is an overview of the historical development of the dhrupad tradition and its performance style from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and of the musical lineages that carried it forward into the twentieth century, followed by analyses of performance techniques, processes and styles. The authors examine the relationship between the structures provided by tradition and their realization by the performer to throw light on the nature of tradition and creativity in Indian music; and the book ends with an account of the ‘revival’ movement of the late twentieth century that re-established the genre in new contexts. Augmented with an analytical transcription of a complete dhrupad performance, this is the first book-length study of an Indian vocal genre to be co-authored by an Indian practitioner and a Western musicologist.

Book Aesthetics of Agra and Jaipur Traditions

Download or read book Aesthetics of Agra and Jaipur Traditions written by Babanarāva Haḷadaṇakara and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A Translation Of An Original Work Written In Marathi. The Author With His Deep Knowledge And Insight Of Agra And Jaipur Gayakis, Has Done A Detailed Comparative Study Of These Two Gayakis Which Is A First In The History Of Critical Writings On Music.

Book Social Mobilisation And Modern Society

Download or read book Social Mobilisation And Modern Society written by Jayanti Barua and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book East Indian Music in the West Indies

Download or read book East Indian Music in the West Indies written by Peter Lamarche Manuel and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinidadian sitarist, composer, and music authority, Mangal Patasar once remarked about tãn-singing, "You take a capsule from India, leave it here for a hundred years, and this is what you get." Patasar was referring to what may be the most sophisticated and distinctive art form cultivated among the one and a half million East Indians whose ancestors migrated as indentured laborers from colonial India to the West Indies between 1845 and 1917. Known in Trinidad and Guyana as "tãn-singing" or "local-classical music" and in Suriname as "baithak gãna" ("sitting music"), tãn-singing has evolved into a unique idiom, embodying the rich poetic and musical heritage brought from India as modified by a diaspora group largely cut off from its ancestral homeland. In recent decades, however, tãn-singing has been declining, regarded as quaint and crude by younger generations raised on MTV, Hindi film music, and disco. At the same time, Indo-Caribbeans have been participating in their countries' economic, political, and cultural lives to a far greater extent than previously. Accompanying this participation has been a lively cultural revival, encompassing both an enhanced assertion of Indianness and a spirit of innovative syncretism. One of the most well-known products of this process is chutney, a dynamic music and dance phenomenon that is simultaneously a folk revival and a pop hybrid. In Trinidad, it has also been the vehicle for a controversial form of female empowerment and an agent of a new, more inclusive, conception of national identity. Thus, East Indian Music in the West Indies is a portrait of a diaspora community in motion. It documents the social and cultural development of a people "without history," a people who have sometimes been dismissed as foreigners who merely perpetuate the culture of the homeland rather than becoming "truly" Caribbean. Professor Manuel shows how inaccurate this characterization is. On the one hand, in the form of tãn-singing, it examines the distinctiveness of traditional Indo-Caribbean musical culture. On the other, in the form of chutney, it examines the new assertiveness and syncretism of Indo-Caribbean popular music. Students of Indo-Caribbean music and curious world-music fans alike will be fascinated by Professor Manuel's guided tour through the complex and exciting world of Indo-Caribbean musical culture. Author note: Peter Manuel, an authority on the music of both North India and the Caribbean, is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Music, and Philosophy at John Jay College. He is the author of several books, including Popular Musics of the Non-Western World (Oxford University Press), Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India, and Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae (Temple University Press).

Book The Origin and Development of Dhrupad and Its Bearing on Instrumental Music

Download or read book The Origin and Development of Dhrupad and Its Bearing on Instrumental Music written by Ec. Saṅghadāsa Perērā and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly its bearing on sitar and sarod music; includes songs with letter notation (p. 229-293).

Book Sangeet Pravesh

Download or read book Sangeet Pravesh written by Sudha D Patwardhan and published by Bhaargavi Damle. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory -book of Classical Hindustani Music for Madhyama Poorna Examination or All Equivalent Examinations

Book Perspectives on Dhrupad

Download or read book Perspectives on Dhrupad written by Deepak Raja and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates to a genre of Indian music.

Book World Music  Latin and North America  Caribbean  India  Asia and Pacific

Download or read book World Music Latin and North America Caribbean India Asia and Pacific written by Simon Broughton and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Book Music and Consciousness

Download or read book Music and Consciousness written by David Clarke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads, or to our material and social worlds? While neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, and cultural theorists offer widely different perspectives on these fundamental questions concerning what it is like to be human, most agree that consciousness represents a 'hard problem'. The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise, but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely and multi-faceted contribution to consciousness studies, critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions. The collection makes it clear that to understand consciousness we need to do much more than just look at brains: studying music demonstrates that consciousness is as much to do with minds, bodies, culture, and history. Incorporating several chapters that move outside Western philosophical traditions, Music and Consciousness corrects any perception that the study of consciousness is a purely occidental preoccupation. And in addition to what it says about consciousness the volume also presents a distinctive and thought-provoking configuration of new writings about music.

Book Tradition of Hindustani Music

Download or read book Tradition of Hindustani Music written by Manorma Sharma and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music Contexts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ashok Damodar Ranade
  • Publisher : Bibliophile South Asia
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9788185002637
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Music Contexts written by Ashok Damodar Ranade and published by Bibliophile South Asia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pran Piya Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan

Download or read book Pran Piya Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan written by Tapasi Ghosh and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Book Is Primarily A Biographical Work With An In-Depth Study Of The Life And Contribution Of Legendary Musician Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan (Vocal) Of The Agra Gharana. It Is Rich With Varied Flavour. The Musicological Elements Consist Of A Brief But Analytical Study Of The Evolution Of Music, Gharana System, Styles And The Agra Gharana With Its Hierarchy. It Contains A Good Number Of Precious Bandishes Composed By Ustadjee With Their Detail Notations. Besides, A Detailed Analysis Of The Ragas Composed By Him And A Comparison With The Conventional Ragas Further Adds To The Value Of The Book. The Book Is Undoubtedly A Valuable Asset For The Students And Researchers Of Music, Musicians, Musicologists, And Music Lovers.

Book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Alison Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.

Book Semiosis in Hindustani Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : José Luiz Martinez
  • Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9788120818019
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Semiosis in Hindustani Music written by José Luiz Martinez and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years music in India has been considered a signifying art. Indian music creates and represents meanings of all kings, some of which extend outwardly to the cosmos, while others arise inwardly, in the refined feelings which a musical connoisseur experiences when listening to it. In this book the author explores signification in Hindustani classical music along a two-fold path. Martineq first constructs a theory of musical semiotics based on the sign-theories of Charles Sanders Peirce. He then applies his theory to the analysis of various types of Hindustani music and how they generate significations. The author engages such fundamental issues as sound quality, raga, tala and form, while advancing his unique interpretations of well-known semiotic phenomena like iconicity, metalanguage, indexicality, symbolism, Martinez`s study also provides deep insight into semiotic issues of musical perception, performance, scholarship, and composition. An specially innovative and extensive section of the book analyzes representations in Hindustani music in terms of the Indian aesthetic theory of rasa. The evolution of the rasa system as applied to musical structures is traced historically and analyzed semiotically. In the light of Martinez`s theories, Hindustani music reveals itself to be both a delightfully sensuous and highly sophisticated system of acoustic representations.

Book Tabla  A Quest

Download or read book Tabla A Quest written by Ustad Julfikar Hussain & Debasish Talukdar and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, "Tabla- A Quest A Theoretical & Practical Guide" Part-1 will be beneficial for the budding talents and students of Classical Instrument, Tabla. It will be helpful for Prathama and Madhyama of Bhatkhande Sangeet Vidyapith, First Year, Second Year and Third Year of Prayag Sangit Samiti, Prayagraj and equivalent examinations of Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Pune, Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh and 9th and 10th Board Examinations. This is the only book describing the Lucknow Gharana of Tabla in detail along with the life sketches and founders and artists of all the Gharanas.

Book Music and Tradition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1981-01-29
  • ISBN : 9780521224000
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Music and Tradition written by Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to reflect characteristic aspects of Dr Picken's study of Oriental and other non-Western musics. Appealing in particular to those engaged in the study of non-Western music, the volume will also interest everyone concerned with musical structures and their development.