The Emergence of The Hindustani Tradition: Music, Dance and Drama in North India, 13th to 19th Centuries
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788188789269
Length
205p., 22cm.
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The essays in this book constitute an extensive study of the musical arts of north India from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Using material from several languages Sanskrit, Awadhi, Braj-Bhasha, Persian and Urdu they trace the varied developments in the musical arts and show how Indian, Central Asian, and Perso-Arab performance traditions underwent synthesis to become one tradition the north Indian Hindustani tradition.
Highlighting the cultural milieu of north ...