The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India
by
Amanda J. Weidman
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
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...