Lyrics of Thyagaraja

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The heterogeneous character of Thyagarajaâ€™s lyrics is a recurrent source of academic discourse. The lyrics present a socio-cultural unit and refer to a plurality of achievements. An uncontested view is that, Thyagaraja stands for a single ideal of the culture of devotion. Prayer is the resultant of Bhakthi and Bhakthi establishes its due station as a Rasa. Prayer rests on and rises from the triple base of, music, devotion and poetry. Thyagaraja offered â€œRagarathna malikaâ€ to Rama. Lyrics do picture the environmental overturns. Political effervescence and cultural efflorescence characterize the period. Politics and Poetics, Money and Metaphysics are isolated and this operational scalene throws a challenge to the assumed theoretical dualism between material and cultural. Art becomes a social factor when society makes it one. Social realism is the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life as a means of social comment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR T.V. Kuppuswami

Prof. T.V. Kuppuswami is well-known in the schools of scholastic studies and research. He learnt classical Carnatic music from famous Vidwans and had extensively read the treatises on music. He is a performing artiste and music is a way of life in his family. His children are all well trained in music and his wife is a Veena artiste. He had and has the privilege of being in intimate touch with doyens of the field of Carnatic music. A post-graduate in History, Economics and Politics of the Madras University, he earned the Doctorate degree of the University of Kerala by research. He had served the field of higher education for over thirty years guiding students to earn their Doctoral titles. He has authored many books and scholarly papers. He is currently a member of the advisory committee of the Indian Music Congress. In an honorary capacity, he serves as a member of the Board of Research Studies in Music of the Delhi University.