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Carnatic music has survived contrary to all the gloom and doom that was predicted. New artistes are added, new labels released and new sabhas are born every year. If Carnatic music is still heard all over the world and makes an emphatic and grand statement of survival each year during the annual December season, it is because of a few great artistes who bore the art form aloft amidst crisis and threats. A colourful lot, much has been written about their art and ...
The term 'Devadasi' evokes a mystical past, replete with devotion and dedication of girls to deities, refrains of soaring music and sensuous dances that attracted the patronage of kings and commoners. The preservation and transmission of the arts largely rested with the Devadasis and they had a strong presence in South India, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though the intellectual elite, the wealthy and the famous, encouraged and ...
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer's life spanned almost a century and he spent most of it in the forefront of the Carnatic music world, as a top-ranking performer and an outstanding professional. The success that he enjoyed alone would make a study of his life worthwhile, for it offers several aspects worthy of emulation.This book, a centenary tribute, attempts to analyse what went into the making of Semmangudi, the man and the musician. The biography covers the key ...