Master Musicians of India: Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak

by Qureshi; Regula Burckhardt

• ISBN13: 9780415972024
• ISBN10: 0415972027
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-06-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Beginning with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Indian art music is renowned internationally for its improvised raga performance. This ancient tradition has for centuries been transmitted orally within the seclusion of hereditary families. Few such families remain today, and not enough is known about their central contribution to the life of Indian music. Master Musicians of India reveals this rich world through profiles and interviews of key musicians from this tradition. The author has spent decades studying these musicians, both as a performer herself and an ethnomusicologist. The book reveals not only the richness of this tradition, but for the first time documents the pedagogy itself, which has long been carefully guarded. Nine musicians from 5 major urban centers are profiled, each with a unique story to tell, covering 3 generations of performers. Master Musicians of India is the first book to present the stories of these performers in their own words. All students of Indianmusic, performance, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies will be enriched by reading it.

Table of Contents

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Musical Notation

Map of South Asia

Preface

Introduction Delhi: Centre of Power

My Guru, A Complete Musician

The Master and Disciples

The Ritual of Shagirdia-the Tie that Binds

Oldest Disciple: Devotion to the Ustad

Then and Now: The Miracle of Family Teaching

Teaching Regula: I Will Make You Into A Sarangi Player Bombay: Freelance Centre

The Concert Sarangi

Pandit Ram Naryan

First Woman Sarangi Player of India

The New Generation

Globalizing Heritage Lucknow: Centre of Tradition

College Ties

The Founder

My `College Teacher'

Inheriting a College Post

Munawwar Husain: Hereditary and Tragedy

A Freelance Past

Sons And Disciples

Bhagvan Das Mishra

Santosh Kumar

The Patron-Disciple

Centre of Hindu Culture

Making Your Mark Karachi: Centre of A0migrA(c)s

An Indian Past Rememberedepilogue

Memoir of An Era For The Future

Glossary

References

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