Music Modernity And Publicness In India

Author : Tejaswi Niranjana
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190990206

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Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India by Tejaswi Niranjana Pdf

With the onset of modernity in twentieth-century India, new social arrangements gave rise to new forms of music-making. The musicians were no longer performing exclusively in the princely courts or in the private homes of the wealthy. Not only did the act of listening to and appreciating music change, it became an important feature of public life, thus influencing how modernity shaped itself. This volume attempts to study the connections between music and the creation of new ideas of publicness during the early twentieth century. How was music labelled as folk or classical? How did music come to play such a catalytic role in forming identities of nationhood, politics, or ethnicity? And how did twentieth-century technologies of sound reproduction and commercial marketing contribute to changing notions of cultural distinction? Exploring these interdisciplinary questions across multiple languages, regions, and musical genres, the essays provide fresh perspectives on the history of musicians and migration in colonial India, the formation of modern spaces of performance, and the articulation of national as well as nationalist traditions.

Author : Samhita Sunya
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520379534

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Sirens of Modernity by Samhita Sunya Pdf

Opening Credits "Akira Kurosawa" : a retrospective prologue -- Introduction : "Romance, comedy, and somewhat jazzy music" -- Problems of translation : world cinema as distribution history -- moving toward the "City of love": Hindustani lyrical genealogies -- Homosocialist co-productions : Pardesi (1957) contra Singapore (1960) -- Comedic crossovers and Madras money-spinners : Padosan's (1968) audiovisual apparatus -- Foreign Exchanges : transregional trafficking through Subah-O-Sham (1972) -- Special features.

Author : Radha Kapuria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192692924

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Music in Colonial Punjab by Radha Kapuria Pdf

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kalawants' (elite musicians), to 'kanjris' (subaltern female performers) and 'tawaifs' (courtesans). A central theme is the rise of new musical publics shaped by the anglicized Punjabi middle classes, and British colonialists' response to Punjab's performing communities. The book reveals a diverse connoisseurship for music with insights from history, ethnomusicology, and geography on an activity that still unites a region now divided between India and Pakistan.

Author : Fabian Bakels
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783832556280

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Applied Ethnomusicology in Nepal. Preserving Traditional Music in South Asia by Fabian Bakels Pdf

What are the implications of establishing a university department for ethnomusicology ``in the field''? How does this affect not only the local music culture but also the development of ethnomusicology? What are the advantages/disadvantages of an ethnomusicology curriculum giving as much importance to practical training in music as to theory classes? At Kathmandu University's Department of Music in Bhaktapur, ethnomusicologists and professional musicians together support the sustainability of traditional music in Nepal by developing approaches that explore the space between ``keeping it as it is'' (conservation) and ``letting it disappear'' (non-interference). This book examines these efforts through an analysis of ethnomusicological research and teaching and the work of professional musicians involved in the development of new forms of popular music. It offers unique insights into a decades-spanning project of applied ethnomusicology, while also contributing to the discourse about musical sustainability and the localisation and practical application of ethnomusicology in South Asia and beyond.

Author : Iris Haukamp,Christin Hoene,Martyn David Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000686883

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Asian Sound Cultures by Iris Haukamp,Christin Hoene,Martyn David Smith Pdf

This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of cultural, social, political, and economic transformation throughout the long twentieth century. Presenting a broad range of topics – from the changing sounds of the Kyoto kimono making industry to radio in late colonial India – the book explores how the study of Asian sound cultures offers greater insight into historical accounts of local and global transformation. Challenging us to rethink and reassemble important categories in sound studies, this book will be a vital resource for students and scholars of sound studies, Asian studies, history, postcolonial studies, and media studies.

Author : Shoutong Zhu,Andrea L. Baldini,Yongming Hong,Zhihua Xu,Sharifah Faizah Syed Mohammed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782384762149

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Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2023) by Shoutong Zhu,Andrea L. Baldini,Yongming Hong,Zhihua Xu,Sharifah Faizah Syed Mohammed Pdf

Zusammenfassung: This is an open access book. About Education: In a narrow sense refers to specially organized school education; in a broader sense, it refers to the social and practical activities that affect the physical and mental development of people. The significance of education is to make people understand the responsibility and righteousness of human society as a person. Only when a person understands his responsibilities and obligations can he become a useful person. The premise is that only those who fulfill their responsibilities and obligations can become a useful person. This is the purpose of education. About Language: Language is a product of a certain society, a phenomenon unique to society, there is no such thing as language outside of society, there is no society, there is no language, the development of language by social constraints, language with the emergence of society, with the development of society and development, with the death of society and death. Language is the bridge and link between members of society, is the tool for mutual communication and expression of ideas, society can not be separated from language, without language, society will collapse and cease to exist. About Art: The value of art, human core, people's aesthetic attitude determines the value of art. Art is a spiritual product, closely related to our life, it can make enrich our spiritual life. The value of art is not only limited to life, it has great value in society, history and business. As an appreciator, we perceive the beauty of art works through images, sounds, experiences, observations, imaginations, and emotions in multiple dimensions, so as to obtain spiritual and emotional pleasure

Author : Amlan Das Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hindustani music
ISBN : 8186017348

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Music and Modernity by Amlan Das Gupta Pdf

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Author : Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231556569

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Radio for the Millions by Isabel Huacuja Alonso Pdf

Co-winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan Studies From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp. She demonstrates that the medium enabled listeners and broadcasters to resist the cultural, linguistic, and political agendas of the British colonial administration and the subsequent independent Indian and Pakistani governments. Rather than being merely a tool of nation building in South Asia, radio created affective links that defied state agendas, policies, and borders. It forged an enduring transnational soundscape, even after the 1947 Partition had made a united India a political impossibility. Huacuja Alonso traces how people engaged with radio across news, music, and drama broadcasts, arguing for a more expansive definition of what it means to listen. She develops the concept of “radio resonance” to understand how radio relied on circuits of oral communication such as rumor and gossip and to account for the affective bonds this “talk” created. By analyzing Hindi film-song radio programs, she demonstrates how radio spurred new ways of listening to cinema. Drawing on a rich collection of sources, including newly recovered recordings, listeners’ letters to radio stations, original interviews with broadcasters, and archival documents from across three continents, Radio for the Millions rethinks assumptions about how the medium connects with audiences.

Author : Gavin Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226833262

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Format Friction by Gavin Williams Pdf

"With the rise of the gramophone circa 1900, the shellac disc mushroomed into the dominant sound format of the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings together a set of local encounters with the shellac disc, beginning with its preconditions in South Asian knowledge and labor as well as early colonial expeditions to capture sounds, to offer a global portrait of this format. Spun at 78 revolutions per minute, the shellac disc had become an industrial standard, even while the gramophone itself remained a novelty. The very basis of this early sound reproduction technology was friction, an elemental materiality of sound shaped through cultural practice. Yet the recording of sounds was only one element in the making of this global format. Using friction as a lens, Gavin Williams reveals the environments plundered, the materials seized, the ears entangled. Bringing together material, political, and music history, Format Friction decenters the story of a beloved medium and so too explores new ways of understanding listening in technological culture more broadly"--

Author : Delhi Press Magazines
Publisher : Delhi Press Magazines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Caravan April 2020 by Delhi Press Magazines Pdf

The Caravan is India’s most respected and admired magazine on politics, art and culture. With a strong literary flair, the magazine presents the best of reportage and commentary on politics, policy, economy, art and culture from within South Asia. It has become an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the political and social environment of the country.

Author : Amanda J. Weidman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822336200

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Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern by Amanda J. Weidman Pdf

DIVAn ethnographic history and critique of the emergence of South Indian carnatic music as a "classical" music in the 20th century./div

Author : Reginald Massey,Jamila Massey
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788170173328

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The Music of India by Reginald Massey,Jamila Massey Pdf

The Classical Music Of The India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Subcontinent Is One Of The New Ancient Art Forms Still Widely Practised Today. In Recent Years It Has Been Much Appreciated All Over The World. This Book, Written By Indian Writers, Serves To Deepen That Appreciation To Understanding. It Covers The Philosophy And History Of Indian Music Clearly And Concisely And Relates Its Growth And Development To Social, Cultural, Religious And Political Factors. India S Musical Contacts With The East And West Are Also Discussed And Their Value Assessed. The Technical Chapters Explain The Raga And Tala Systems, The Numerous Instruments From North And South Are Described In Detail With The Help Of Excellent Line Drawings By Eilean Pearcey, And The Glossary Of Terms Illumines The Subject In An Interesting Way. Short Biographies Of Established Musicians, Composers And Musicologists Place On Record Their Various Achievements. Apart From A Selective Bibliography And Discography For The Reader S Guidance There Is Also A List Of Useful Addresses. The Music Of India Will Prove Invaluable To The Student And Specialist Who Requires A Ready Handbook On The Subject. For The General Reader It Contains A Mine Of Information On The Musical Life Of An Entire Subcontinent. Ravi Shankar, In His Foreword, Recommends This Book To All Who Wish To Be Introduced To India S Music, Her Culture And Her Peoples. This Is A Work Of Scholarship; Lively, At Times Even Witty And Never Dull

Author : Bigamudre Chaitanya Deva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037362014

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The Music of India by Bigamudre Chaitanya Deva Pdf

Collection of papers on the psycho-acoustics of music.

Author : Bonnie C. Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002253800

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Music in India by Bonnie C. Wade Pdf

Author : Sumanth Gopinath,Jason Stanyek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199704859

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The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies by Sumanth Gopinath,Jason Stanyek Pdf

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous. At once a marketing term, a common mode of everyday-life performance, and an instigator of experimental aesthetics, "mobile music" opens up a space for studying the momentous transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and experience of music and sound that took place between the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries. Taken together, the two volumes cover a large swath of the world-the US, the UK, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Mexico, France, China, Jamaica, Iraq, the Philippines, India, Sweden-and a similarly broad array of the musical and nonmusical sounds suffusing the soundscapes of mobility. Volume 1 provides an introduction to the study of mobile music through the examination of its devices, markets, and theories. Conceptualizing a long history of mobile music extending from the late nineteenth century to the present, the volume focuses on the conjunction of human mobility and forms of sound production and reproduction. The volume's chapters investigate the MP3, copyright law and digital downloading, music and cloud computing, the iPod, the transistor radio, the automated call center, sound and text messaging, the mobile phone, the militarization of iPod usage, the cochlear implant, the portable sound recorder, listening practices of schoolchildren and teenagers, the ringtone, mobile music in the urban soundscape, the boombox, mobile music marketing in Mexico and Brazil, music piracy in India, and online radio in Japan and the US.