This work is the first of its kind in India to deal with the subject of Indian Music in the socio-cultural perspective. The author describes the Indian Music Scenario in the Post-Independence period highlighting the changes from the pre-independence period in the areas of patronage, performance and pursuit of academic studies. An attempt has been made in the Golden Jubilee year of Independence to corelate the political and socio-cultural changes in the past fifty years with musical developments.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.A.K. Durga
Dr. S.A.K. Durga is the Professor Emeritus, Department of Indian Music, University of Madras, the Founder Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology, Madras. She has received her Ph.D. Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University USA and did her Post-Post Doctoral Resear5ch in Ethnomusicology at Yale University, USA. She has also to her credit M.A. and M.Litt and Ph.D. in Indian Music from Madras University, India. Dr. Durga has a wide teaching experience in Indian and Foreign Universities to Indian and non-Indian students. Dr. Durga has published seven books on Indian Music and Ethnomusicology besides her many research papers in Indian and overseas journals of repute. Besides being an academician, Dr. Durga is a performing artist of Indian classical music and producer/performer of Avante Garde Music.
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