Music, Time and Place: Essays in Comparative Musicology

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‘Music, Time and Place’ is a collection of interlinked essays which deal with a wide range of issues concerning both Indian and Western music and musical thought. The essays are organised in three main sections. The first, ‘Time and rhythm’, discusses a number of interrelated questions concerning the organisation of music in time. The next section concerns the history of comparative musicology, early sound recording, particularly A. H. Fox Strangways’ classic book The Music of Hindostan. Finally, in ‘Beyond the East-West divide’, Clayton addresses the histories of Indian music in the West and Western music in India, and questions some commonly-held notions of essential difference. The essays make significant and original contributions across a wide range of contemporary musicological debates.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Martin Clayton

Martin Clayton studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1993. Since 1995 he has been employed at the Open University, where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Music: he has also taught at a number of other universities, including those of London, Cambridge and Chicago, and worked at the British Library Sound Archive. He is the Author of Time in Indian Music (Oxford University press, 2000) and co-editor of the cultural Study of Music (Rutledge, 2003), and a former editor of the British Journal of Ethnomusicology. His work most of which focuses on Indian repertoires addresses musical behaviour and thought from a wide range of perspectives, employing ethnographic, psychological, historical and critical approaches.