000			01544nam a2200157 4500
020			_a9780198071907
082			_aM780.954 _bLAK/F
100			_aLakshmi Subramanian
245			_aFrom the Tanjore court to the Madras music academy: _ba social history of music in south India
250			_a2
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University press _c2006
300			_a196 p.
520			_aThis book traces the adaptation of the traditional music in south India, from the quiet courtyards of Tanjore to the concert halls of Madras, to the necessities of colonial and post-colonial social realities. An engaging narrative of the production of knowledge about music and the related institution-building process, the volume raises larger questions of identity and imagination. It discusses the influence of nationalism in the creation of an auditory habit as much as it shows how performance and patronage influenced the self-development of the consuming elite. Anticipating the dilemmas of the emerging modern Indian middle class, the author also explores the ambivalence and ambiguities that informed musical practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second edition carries a new introduction which updates research on the subject and also discusses the new issues and trends emerging in the study of south Indian classical music. This book will interest students and scholars of history, music, sociology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, south India, as well as informed general readers.
650			_aCarnatic music
942			_cBK
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