From the Tanjore court to the Madras music academy : a social history of music in South India

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From the Tanjore court to the Madras music academy : a social history of music in South India

by Lakshmi Subramanian

Oxford University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-191) and index

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This book traces the adaptation of the traditional music in south India to the necessities of colonial and post-colonial social realities. The cultivation of classical music and the music of the Tanjore Trinity in particular, emerged as a central element in the articulation, nourishment and defence of a collective cultural persona by the Tamil Brahmin community in the face of the atomising threat of modernity. This project coincided with the growth of nationalist political agendas and traditional music was enlisted in the service of the freedom movement as an emblem of India s unique and independent authenticity. Classical music, in moving from the quiet courtyards of Tanjore to the concert halls of Madras, acquired a systematic re-ordering internally and externally that has empowered it to survive and thrive in the eccentric contemporary world.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 2. MUSIC COMES TO THE CITY
  • CHAPTER 3. DEFINING THE CLASSICAL: THE NATIONALIST IMPERATIVE
  • CHAPTER 4. CONSOLIDATING THE CLASSICAL: THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY AND THE POLITICS OF CUSTODIANSHIP
  • CHAPTER 5. ON THE MARGINS OF THE CLASSICAL: LAW, SOCIAL REFORM, AND THE DEVDASIS IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY
  • CHAPTER 6. CONTESTING THE CLASSICAL: THE TAMIL ISAI IYAKKAM, AND THE CONTEST FOR CUSTODIANSHIP
  • CHAPTER 7. EPILOGUE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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