Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Some articles on Indian music

The following remark ""Pattnam Subramania Iyer , a disciple of Thyagaraja, composed is well-known 'Raghuvamsa Sudha' in the raga kathakuthuhoolam, which he had invented using a modified version of the Western major scale and that specifies long intervals and almost no gamaka.The composition and a variety of "English notes" or "Western notes", as they are called are a staple fare at the end of anyinstrumental concert of Karnatic music to this day" in Amanda Weidman's
Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern:The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India

led me to look around a bit on western influences and studies of South Indian music. Here are a few:
From Threatened by Modernity to Reinvented by Modernity: The History of the History of Indian Classical Music 1980 – 2006 by Garrett Field

From Court to Concert Hall: The Evolution of Carnatic Music Performance

NottuSwara – Muthuswamy Dikshitar’s European airs
Music and Manipulation

The latest from Amanda Weidman Anthropology and the Voice in which familiar memes like S. Janaki, P. Suseela and L.R. Eswari appear.

There are also several interesting articles by Stephen Putnam Hughes. For a discussion of one of his papers http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/3596/1/MusicIntheAgeofMechanicalReproduction.pdf, see The evolution of South Indian movie music

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