Lakshmi Subramanian

From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy

A Social History of Music in South India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the production of knowledge about music and the related institution-building process in south India. It also examines the role of identity, imagination, nationalism, and patronage in the development of musical tradition in south India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780198071907
• ISBN-10: 0198071906
• Artikelnr.: 33253436

Autorenporträt

Lakshmi Subramanian is Coordinator, Indian Ocean Studies Programme, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and was formerly Senior Fellow in History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Music Comes to the City
Chapter 2. Defining the Classical: The Nationalist Imperative
Chapter 3. Consolidating the Classical: The Madras Music Academy and the Politics of Custodianship
Chapter 4. On the Margins of the Classical: Law, Social Reform, and the Devadasis in the Madras Presidency
Chapter 5. Contesting the Classical: The Tamil Isai Iyakkam and the Contest for Custodianship
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.