Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

This collection brings together essays by a number of scholars, researchers and professionals in the field of music, offering a wide range of viewpoints and approaches to the impact of modernity on the traditional practices of North Indian classical music. Specialists in the field of history of technology, instrument-making, record collection and preservation, as well as performing artists and researchers in the history and aesthetics of music focus on the impact of technology with the introduction of techniques of sound reproduction, as also with the advent of print culture and the new values of reception and learning.