Lineage of Loss: Counternarratives of North Indian Music (Music/Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819577596 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Today this musical lineage, or ghar n , lives on in the music and memories of only a small handful of descendants and players of the family instrument, the sarod. An interdisciplinary, postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music’s encounter with modernity.. In doing so he illuminates a hidden history of ideological and social struggle in North Indian music culture, intervenes in ongoing debates over the anti-Muslim agenda of Hindustani music’s reform movement, and reanimates a lost vision in which Muslim scholar-artists defined the music of the nation. In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of the Lucknow ghar n ,tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory
Every serious student will learn much from this quite new story.” (Daniel M. Neuman, Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA)“Lineage of Loss is an important scholarly statement that challenges the generally accepted interpretation of the historical trajectory of artistic production in North India. In this beautifully crafted text Max Katz illuminates a relatively unknown, yet tremendously important, lineage of knowledge and experience to form an a
. MAX KATZ is associate professor of music at the College of William and Mary