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Musicking bodies [electronic resource] : gesture and voice in Hindustani music / Matthew Rahaim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rahaim, Matthew.
- Series:
- Music Culture
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singing--India.
- Singing.
- Gesture in music.
- Hindustani music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Hindustani music.
- Raga.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Investigates the life of the body in Indian vocal music
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transcription; A Note on Languages and Terminology; Introduction; 1. A History of Moving and Singing in India; 2. Gesture and Melodic Motion; 3. Ragas as Spaces for Melodic Motion; 4. Melodic Motion in Time; 5. The Musicking Body; 6. The Paramparic Body; Appendix A: Planes of the Body; Appendix B: Teaching Lineages of Jitendra Abhisheki and Gajanan Rao Joshi; Appendix C: A Note on Methods; Notes; Guide to Transliteration, Glossary of Terms, and List of Names; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J
- KL; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8195-7327-2
- OCLC:
- 828424781
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