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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : India
ISBN : OXFORD:590907559
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : WISC:89015231863
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082940647
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X030158400
Author : Sir George Abraham Grierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : India
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071942605
Author : Charles Ambrose Storey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UCSC:32106019846036
Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191541735
Music of the Raj is a study of musical life in late eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian society, based on the unpublished correspondence of an extended network of families. The writers of these letters - amateurs with a passionate commitment to the art of music - provide a perceptive commentary on many of the major issues of the day: the stylistic change from Baroque to Galant, the replacement of the harpsichord with the pianoforte, the establishment of the musical canon, and the growing economic and cultural influence of women musicians. Among the topics discussed are the transport, tuning and maintenance of instruments, the relationship between amateur pupil and professional teacher, the conduct of the domestic musical soirée, the role of glee singing in courtship, and the musical education of children. An account is also given of the growth of an expatriate musical culture among the European inhabitants of early colonial Calcutta, and the musical tastes of major Anglo-Indian figures such as Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, and Sir William Jones are assessed. English attitudes to Indian music is an important theme, especially as manifested in the fashion for the Hindostannie airs, transcriptions of Indian melodies in European musical language. The study concludes with an examination of the musical lives of wealthy nabobs back in England, where they immersed themselves in Indian musical culture, taking the Grand Tour, supporting opera at the Kings Theatre, and employing fashionable Italian teachers for their children.
Author : Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351383127
The essays in New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism look at one of the most ancient and rigorous classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system, and the kind of changes it underwent once it was relocated from traditional spaces of temples and salons to the public domain. Nineteenth-century Madras led the way in the transformation that Karnatik music underwent as it encountered the forces of modernization and standardization. This study also contributes to our understanding of the experience of modernity in India through the prism of music. The role of Madras city as patron and custodian of the performing arts, especially classical music offers an invaluable perspective on the larger processes of modernization in India. As the title suggests, the areas of classical music, which were most influenced by these developments were pedagogy or modes of musical transmission, performance conventions and criticism or music appreciation. Once the urban elite demanded the widening of the teaching of classical music, traditional modes of music instruction underwent a major change involving a breakdown of the gurushishya parampara or the tradition wherein the teacher imparted knowledge to a chosen few. Caste and kinship were important determining factors for the selection of these shishyas or students, but in modern institutions like the universities these boundaries had to be demolished. Simultaneously, the public staging of music brought the performer into a new relationship with his audience, especially as the art form became subject to validation and criticism by the newly emerging music critic. In an immensely readable book peppered with anecdotes and conversations with leading musicians and critics of the day, as well as humorous visual representations, part caricature, part satirical, the author describes a rapidly changing society and its new look in early twentieth century Madras.
Author : Bruno Nettl,Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226574097
Non-Aboriginal; based on papers presented at Ideas, Concepts and Personalities in the History of Ethnomusicology conference, Urbana, Illinois, April 1988.
Author : Margaret E. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317117377
Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a different story of syncretic origins and hybrid history - it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Kathak's multiple roots can be found in rural theatre, embodied rhythmic repertoire, and courtesan performance practice, and its history is inextricable from the history of empire, colonialism, and independence in India. Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, Margaret Walker undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.
Author : Allyn Miner
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 8120814932
The music of north India has attained its world renown largely through its most prominent stringed instruments, the sitar and the sarod. This work bring together material from written, oral and pictorial sources to trace the early history of the instruments, their innovators and their music.
Author : Gerry Farrell
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000068234123
AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction1. `Wild by pleasing when understood.' Europeans and Indian music in the late eighteenth century2. `In short, almost everything Oriental appears to better advantage in European garb.' Indian music, notation, and nationalism in the nineteenth century3. `My naive heart ... ' Indian music in Western popular song4. `This talking machine is the marvel of the twentieth century.' The gramophone comes to India5. `Pomegranates with fingerboards added.' Three journeys to the West6. `We'll be able to get plastic sitars in our cornflakes soon.' Indian music in popular music and jazz7. `Listen to the story of an Asian man.' World Music and South Asian music in the WestAppendix : Selected discography for chapters 6 and 7List of Sources and BibliographyIndex.
Author : Janaki Bakhle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195347319
A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite, which occurred despite the fact that Muslims were the major practiti oners of the Indian music that was installed as a "Hindu" national tradition. This book lays bare how a nation's imaginings--from politics to culture--reflect rather than transform societal divisions.
Author : Albrecht Fuess,Jan-Peter Hartung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136917806
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm. The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to India. Themes range from the religious legitimacy of Muslim rulers, terminologies for court culture in Oriental languages, Muslim concepts of space for royal representation, accessibility of rulers, the role of royal patronage for Muslim scholars and artists to the growing influence of European courts as role models from the eighteenth century onwards. Discussing specific terminologies for courts in Oriental languages and explaining them to the non specialist, chapters describe the specific features of Muslim courts and point towards future research areas. As such, it fills this important gap in the existing literature in the areas of Islamic history, religion, and Islam in particular.
Author : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184006308
The thousands of mourners who lined Wajid Ali Shah’s funeral route on 21 September, 1887, with their loud wailing and shouted prayers, were not only marking the passing of the last king but also the passing of an intangible connection to old India, before the Europeans came. This is the story of a man whose memory continues to divide opinion today. Was Wajid Ali Shah, as the British believed, a debauched ruler who spent his time with fiddlers, eunuchs and fairies, when he should have been running his kingdom? Or, as a few Indians remember him, a talented poet whose songs are still sung today, and who was robbed of his throne by the English East India Company? Somewhere between these two extremes lies a gifted, but difficult, character; a man who married more women than there are days in the year; who directed theatrical extravaganzas that took over a month to perform, and who built a fairytale palace in Lucknow, which was inhabited for less than a decade. He remained a constant thorn in the side of the ruling British government with his extravagance, his menagerie and his wives. Even so, there was something rather heroic about a man who refused to bow to changing times, and who single-handedly endeavoured to preserve the etiquette and customs of the great Mughals well into the period of the British Raj. India’s last king Wajid Ali Shah was written out of the history books when Awadh was annexed by the Company in February 1856. After long years of painstaking research, noted historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones revives his memory and returns him his rightful place as one of India’s last great rulers.