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Why does Indian music have its present form? How can we understand and interpret its distinctive features? An aura of mystery has always surrounded the theory and practice of Indian music and now, with its influence ever strengthening in the West, a study as lucid and penetrating as that made by Professor Jairazbhoy is of special significance.The subject of this book is the Rags, and the whole tonal and scalar basis of north Indian music. The important features ...
This book explores elements of Rajasthani kathputli puppetry--one of several traditions of string or marionette puppetry that evolved in Europe, Asia and Africa. In addition to performance techniques, it focuses on the views and attitudes expressed by the hereditary puppeteers, the kathputli Bhats, through their art as well as through their verbal expressions. Interviews with forty-seven puppeteers, photographs and audio and video recordings of kathputli events ...