New Mansions For Music

This book looks at one of the most ancient classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system. It also contributes to our understanding of the experience of modernity in India through the prism of music. The developments that influenced areas of classical music were pedagogy, performance conventions and music appreciation. In an immensely readable book with anecdotes and conversations with musicians, humorous visual representations, part caricature, part satirical, the author describes a rapidly changing society in early twentieth century Madras.
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Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor, Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her earlier publications include From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy: A Social History of Music in South India, Oxford University Press, Delhi 2006.

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