Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London)

Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India (eBook, PDF)

Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748 1858

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748 1858 and takes the lives of nine musicians as entry points into six prominent types of writing on music in Persian, Brajbhasha, Urdu and English, moving from Delhi to Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur and among the British. It shows how a key Mughal cultural field responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule, while addressing a central philosophical question: can we ever recapture the ephemeral experience of music once the performance is over? These rich, diverse sources shine new light on the wider historical processes of this pivotal transitional period, and provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the precise period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2023
• ISBN-13: 9781009058605
• Artikelnr.: 70912417

Autorenporträt

Katherine Schofield is Head of the Department of Music at King's College London and recipient of a European Research Council Grant and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. She is co-editor of Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (2015) and Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Chasing eurydice: writing on music in the late Mughal
world; 2. The Mughal orpheus: remembering Khushhal Khan Gunasamudra in
eighteenth-century Delhi; 3. The rivals: Anjha Baras, Adarang and the
scattering of Shahjahanabad; 4. The courtesan and the Memsahib: Khanum Jan
and Sophia Plowden at the court of Lucknow; 5. Eclipsed by the Moon:
Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad; 6. Faithful to the
salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India company in Rajasthan; 7.
Keeper of the flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the last of the Mughal Emperors;
8. Orphans of the uprising: late Mughal Echoes and 1857.