Singing the Classical Voicing the Modern : The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India
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1st ed.
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817046319X
Length
xvi+349p., Figures; Index; 24cm.
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While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principles 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 Asian regional politics. As Amanda J. Weidman demonstrates, in order for Karnatic music to be considered classical music, it needed to be ...
