Showing all 6 books
Today Indian Music has won a place of pride in the global musical heritage. Hindustani classical music and its vocal stream have been major influences in creating the larger Indian musical tradition. Music being a performing art lives in performance. These performances are obviously realized through performing ideas and their exploration by artists concerned. The identification of performing ideas provides the prime clue to the qualitative forces in any ...
In reality the totality of Indian music is a cumulative result of six musical categories functioning for centuries and enjoying an impressive distribution in India - a country of subcontinental expanse! The six categories are identifiable as primitive, folk, religious, art, popular and confluence. Each category enjoys a unique cultural hinterland though in larger contexts the categories inevitably overlap! Consequently they raise interesting questions about ...
All rich, durable and varied cultural traditions thrive because of their presence in multiple contexts. Hindustani music is no exception. Arts, culture and life have shaped the multi-faceted personality of Indian music. Through this mechanism the performing and scholastic streams of Hindustani music have evolved to crystallize the totality of inherited and practiced musical knowledge. The resulting musico-cultural profile is both rich and complex! Therefore the ...
The book represents a major attempt to place music in India in wider perspectives offered by numerous music-traditions which deal with theoretical frameworks of music. It is music theory, pitched at an ambitious high. In twenty-seven closely argued essays, the author touches diverse music-centered studies such as religion, philosophy, linguistics, poetics, theatre-arts, folklore, aesthetics, musicology as grammar, history, intercultural inquiries, area-studies, ...
Hindi Film Song is the proclaimed victory song of Indian popular music. Countless musicians, voices, composers and lyricists have contributed to its emergence and prosperity. Irrespective of origins and locations, Hindi Film Song has artistically explored, craftily modified numerous musical resources and sometimes even shamelessly plagiarized them! Did K.L. Saigal sing better when drunk or when sober? Was Kishore Kumar an actor who sang or a singer who emoted? ...