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Book Romance of the Raga

Download or read book Romance of the Raga written by Vijaya Moorthy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place Of The Raga In Indian Classical Music Is Indeed Unique.The Romance Of The Raga Is An Attempt To Outline The Evolution And Perspective, As Also The Sheer Variety And Distinct Styles, Of This Powerful And Enthralling Medium Of Spiritual And Aesthetic Form Of Musical Expressions.Based On The Belief That Sound Is God And Nada Brahma Or Intelligle Sound Is The Fusion Of The Physical Breath With The Fire Of The Intellect, The Book Proceeds To Unravel The Priceless Historical Traditions Of Indian Classical Music.It Provides A Glimpse Into The Variety Of Techniques And Styles That Are Employed For Presentation Of The Raga And Highlights The Significant Contribution Made By Some Of The Shapers Of India'S Musical Destiny Towards The Enrichment Of Both The Systems : Hindustani And Karnatak.The Work Also Portrays The Predominant Characteristics Of Inner Dynamism And Resilience, As Also The Unlimited Potential, Amazing Elasticity And The Power Of Assimilation Of The Raga, As A Medium Of Creative Musical Expression. Further, The Variety And Range Of Musical Instruments And Confluence Of Indian Classical Music And Miniature Painting Have Been Illustrated With A View To Enunciating The Raga.

Book Ragamalika

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  • Author : Meera Shivashankar
  • Publisher : Notion Press
  • Release : 2021-04-09
  • ISBN : 1638327688
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Ragamalika written by Meera Shivashankar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after her last romance novel, Meera Shivashankar returns with an anthology of raga-based short stories. A young woman named Nandini who is enamoured by a selfless man devoted to his only son; Nilakshi, a middle-aged woman who rediscovers her passion for dance; Anantha, who finds out some disturbing truths about her domineering mother; Raghuvir, a renowned classical musician who is shocked by the reviews of a music blogger; a famous celebrity who tried to take her own life - These are just some of the tales in this fascinating new anthology of short stories. Read all these and more in ‘Ragamalika’ -- an anthology of music-themed short stories by popular romance novelist Meera Shivashankar. Twelve skilfully crafted stories that examine the human heart and mind and the emotions ranging from love and jealousy to anger and revenge that govern the actions of people, giving us a poignant insight into people, each beautifully laced with a raga. Come lose yourself in the beauty of ‘Ragamalika’ and find a story and a raga that touch your soul. A must-read for lovers of contemporary fiction and Indian classical music.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book P Z

Download or read book P Z written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Finding the Raga

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  • Author : Amit Chaudhuri
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2021-03-30
  • ISBN : 168137479X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Finding the Raga written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography An autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high-rise in Bombay, far from his family’s native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his prior inclinations, to study Indian classical music. Finding the Raga chronicles that transformation and how it has continued to affect and transform not only how Chaudhuri listens to and makes music but how he listens to and thinks about the world at large. Offering a highly personal introduction to Indian music, the book is also a meditation on the differences between Indian and Western music and art-making as well as the ways they converge in a modernism that Chaudhuri reframes not as a twentieth-century Western art movement but as a fundamental mode of aesthetic response, at once immemorial and extraterritorial. Finding the Raga combines memoir, practical and cultural criticism, and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging, challenging, and enthralling body of work.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Song Lyrics

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  • Author : Michel Montecrossa
  • Publisher : Mirapuri-Verlag
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 3922800831
  • Pages : 677 pages

Download or read book Song Lyrics written by Michel Montecrossa and published by Mirapuri-Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raga n Josh

Download or read book Raga n Josh written by Sheila Dhar and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheila Dhar`S Autobiographical Stories, Essays And Memoirs Are Classics Of Modern Indian Prose Many Out Of Print For Some Time. The Present Book Provides, For The First Time Within The Covers Of A Single Volume, Her Collected Shorter Writings, Including All Her Memorable Stories And Essays.

Book Sex and Power

Download or read book Sex and Power written by Rita Banerji and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Sex underlies human existence, and if human life is sacred, how can sex not be?’ As squeamish as India is today about sex, this is also the land where queens once copulated with head horses at religious ceremonies, where the art of love-making was declared the revelation of the gods and recorded in elaborate detail in the kama sutras and prostitution was a form of sacred offering at temples adorned with erotic sculptures. Using India as a paradigm, Rita Banerji illustrates that sexual morality is not an absolute but a facet of living that undergoes periodic upheavals. She delineates four major periods in Indian history when there were significant shifts in the collective social perception of sex and sexuality, and the associated customs and beliefs. What causes this revision in sexual ethos? To explain this, Sex and Power proposes a modified version of Nietzsche’s slave versus master morality theory. The theory, which is tested against the dynamics of each of the four defined periods, establishes that the moral overview of any given period is determined not by a set of pre-existing ethics but by the existent power structure of the period in question. The accepted moral code actually serves the party in power. How would this theory play out in the context of India today? Banerji examines this question at length as one of extreme urgency, and concludes that the three most burning issues facing the country today—population explosion, AIDS and female genocide—are the manifestations of a collective sexual malfunctioning of society and need to be redressed in the context of an existent social and economic power hierarchy.

Book Parul  A Love Story

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  • Author : Harsha V. Dehejia
  • Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 9351940306
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Parul A Love Story written by Harsha V. Dehejia and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praful is a Professor, a dyed-in-the-wool academic who is shaped by the life-denying philosophy of Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta. Parul, on the other hand, is a sensual, earthy woman who believes in the veracity of love and the reality of the many beautiful things that life offers. A chance meeting between the two leads not only to a romantic relationship spread over eleven purnimas, but becomes a dialogue between two philosophical systems, the Advaita of Shankara and the Madhurya of the Bhagvata Purana. As romantic moments between the two unfold, intellectuality interacts with sensuality, questioning the validity of each, and as Chaitra moves to Magh, a transformation takes place. As Harsha Dehejia weaves this romantic story, where meetings by the Parijataka and conversations underneath the Champa, are not only moments of shringara but introspections on the meaning of life, we hear and feel the sensuality of love as it merges seamlessly with the intellectuality of a philosophic discourse. In this heart-throbbing romantic relationship, there is the spiritual quest of ultimate reality along with the pleasures of the sound of the wind and the song of a bird. Metaphysical thoughts and tender feelings, evocative colours and resonant sounds, intoxicating aromas and patterned textures, myths and metaphors, intermingle in the hushed conversations of two people in love.

Book Making Musical Time

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  • Author : Guerino Mazzola
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 3030856291
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Making Musical Time written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive examination of the conception, perception, performance, and composition of time in music across time and culture. It surveys the literature of time in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, music theory, and somatic studies (medicine and disability studies) and looks ahead through original research in performance, composition, psychology, and education. It is the first monograph solely devoted to the theory of construction of musical time since Kramer in 1988, with new insights, mathematical precision, and an expansive global and historical context. The mathematical methods applied for the construction of musical time are totally new. They relate to category theory (projective limits) and the mathematical theory of gestures. These methods and results extend the music theory of time but also apply to the applied performative understanding of making music. In addition, it is the very first approach to a constructive theory of time, deduced from the recent theory of musical gestures and their categories. Making Musical Time is intended for a wide audience of scholars with interest in music. These include mathematicians, music theorists, (ethno)musicologists, music psychologists / educators / therapists, music performers, philosophers of music, audiologists, and acousticians.

Book Dance  Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora

Download or read book Dance Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora written by Tina K Ramnarine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora provides fascinating examples of dance and music projects across the Indian Diaspora to highlight that decolonisation is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one. The book analyses creative processes in decolonising projects, illustrating how dance and music across the Indian Diaspora articulate socio-political aspirations in the wake of thinkers such as Gandhi and Ambedkar. It presents a wide range of examples: post-apartheid practices and experiences in a South African dance company, contestations over national identity politics in Trinidadian music competitions, essentialist and assimilationist strategies in a British dance competition, the new musical creativity of second-generation British-Tamil performers, Indian classical dance projects of reform and British multiculturalism, feminist intercultural performances in Australia, and performance re-enactments of museum exhibits that critically examine the past. Key topics under discussion include postcolonial contestations, decolonising scholarship, dialogic pedagogies and intellectual responsibility. The book critically reflects on decolonising aims around respect, equality and the colonial past’s redress as expressed through performing arts projects. Presenting richly detailed case studies that underline the need to examine creative processes in the cultures of decolonisation, Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Performing Arts Studies and Anthropology. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Book India Today

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 836 pages

Download or read book India Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature of Java

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  • Author : Theodore G. TH. Pigeaud
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-06-29
  • ISBN : 9401525676
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Literature of Java written by Theodore G. TH. Pigeaud and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third, concluding volume of "Literature of Java" contains Addenda and a General Index, preceded by Illustrations, Facsimiles of Manuscripts, Maps and some Minor Notes, additions which may be of U'se to students of Javanese literature. The older catalogues of collections of Indonesian manuscripts (Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese), which were written in Dutch, did not offer such additional aids to interested readers. One of the reasons was. , that the authors (Vreede, Brandes, van Ronkel, Juynboll, Berg) presupposed a certain knowledge of the Indones,ian peoples, their countries and their culture with Dutch students. As often as not the latter, or their families, had lived for many years in Java, and they were destined, when they had completed their studies in The Netherlands, to pass one or more decades of 'their active life in the ,tropics in the service of Government, the Christian Missions or the Bible Society. The Archipelago was their second home country. Some familiarity with things Indonesian was found in several circles of society in The Netherlands before the second world war, and information (though not always scholarly and exact) was supplied by quite a number of books and periodicals. For this reason it was thought superfluoU's to encumber specialistic books like catalogues of manuscripts with maps and general information which could be found easily elsewhere, for instance in the Dutch "Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indie". As circumstances have changed it is.

Book IAS Mains Paper 1 Indian Heritage   Culture History   Geography of the world   Society 2021

Download or read book IAS Mains Paper 1 Indian Heritage Culture History Geography of the world Society 2021 written by Janmenjay Sahni and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE INDIAN LISTENER

Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi . This book was released on 1940-12-22 with total page 96 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: 22-12-1940 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 96 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. VI, No. 1 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 25, 27-28, 33-92 ARTICLE: 1. Rebels In Literature 2. Importance Of Accurate Information 3. Service To Listeners 4. Practical Art 5. In Retrospect AUTHOR: 1. Prof. M. S. Sundaram 2. H. E. Sir John Herbert 3. A.S.Bokhari 4. Dr. J. H. Cousins 5. Unknown KEYWORDS: 1. Modern Literature, Novel-Writing, Modern Fiction 2. All India Radio, Royal Air Force 3. Controller Of Broadcasting, Broadcasting Studios, Calcutta Studios 4. Art, Use And Abuse Of ArtUtility Of Art, Art Adviser 5. Year 1940, Radio Broadcasting, Ban On Harmonium, War News Document ID: INL-1940-41 (J-D) Vol- I (01)