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Music and singing represent well-established ritual tools in religious traditions all over the world. In the South Asian cultural sphere, music constitutes moreover a most vital and indispensable component in every branch of the performing arts, be it dance, or theatre, or other types of dramatic enactment. Tied into an homogeneous whole by the bond of music, the performing tradition has therefore found its fixed place in rituals and liturgies anywhere in the ...
Rasalila is a well-loved form of religious drama characteristic for and unique to the region of Vraja in northwestern Uttar Pradesh, one of India's foremost religious and cultural centers. The rasalila theatre of Vraja takes episodes from the childhood life of the Hindu God Krsna for its subject-matter; the central theme of the dramas is the enactment of the rasa, the circular dance performed by Krsna with the cowherd women of Vraja on an autumn full-moon night. ...
Dhrupada is the oldest genre of North Indian vocal music, referred to by Indian musicians and music scholars with high respect as the fundamental style, the ancient and most sacred genre the quintessence of North Indian art music. Despite its key function in the music history, dhrupada has assumed the r61e of a museum piece within the rich and colorful tradition of Hindustani classical music. Having been the predominant style at the Mughal court of Akbar in the ...