Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Roy, Tirthankar

Titel

Music and Society in Late Colonial India: A Study of Esraj in Gaya

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of Asian studies, 2020-02, Vol.79 (1), p.25-49

Ort / Verlag

Ann Arbor: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian classical music was in transition. Most readings of the transition stress the choices of the professional musicians, as these musicians and the institutions in which they functioned were caught up in political and economic movements such as nationalism and commercialization. This article studies a different type of transition: when a small-town professional group with a strong associational culture became musicians. This second process, standing in contrast to the received narratives, suggests novel lessons in the history of urban cultures during a time of change.