Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern

Name: Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822336204
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The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India

by Amanda J. Weidman

Duke University Press

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While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala , is known today as South India's classical music, its status as "classical" is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial modernity, nationalist ideology, and South Indian regional politics. As Amanda J.

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