Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan

by Daniel Neuman, Komal Kothari, Shubha Chaudhuri

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An atlas of one of the world’s richest historical musical traditions, this book is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. Based on extensive statistical and cultural data, it provides an ethnographic survey of musical traditions organized on the basis of specific communities of music specialists, their patrons and the music they produce. Much of the cultural context of Rajasthan’s musical history is based on the epic songs of its bardic traditions. These traditions are very much alive today and now enjoy a new global audience extending far beyond Rajasthan’s borders.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Daniel Neuman

Daniel Neuman is Executive Vice-Chancellor at UCLA in Los Angeles and the Author of the Life and music in North India, University of Chicago Press.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Komal Kothari

Komal Kothari, was director and founder of Rupayan Sansthan, an institute of folklore in Rajasthan.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shubha Chaudhuri

Shubha Chaudhuri is Director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has a background in Linguistics and has been with the ARCE for the last twenty years. She has been very actively involved in issues of archiving, as well as training workshops and consulting in this field. She is vice President, International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives.