Monday, June 15, 2020

The Ragascape of Hindustani Music: IV

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Instrumental music and the Ragascape In the post-independence era, the re-engineering of older instruments, the entry of newer instru...

The Ragascape of Hindustani Music: III

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A contextual perspective on ratings Musicians select their repertoire for concerts based on certain contextual considerations.   It t...

The Ragascape of Hindustani Music: II

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Patterns in Audience Engagement Table 1 presents the list of the 97 considered Raga-s in descending order of views per month (the aud...

The Ragascape of Hindustani Music: I

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About a hundred years ago, VN Bhatkhande published compositions in 181 Raga-s, of which he described 45 as being “Prasiddha” . The rema...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Book Review: The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan

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November 8, 2018 Chitra Swaminathan  Namita Devidayal’s book on Ustad Vilayat Khan is an interesting account of his life and musica...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Musician and his Art: to be published soon.

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Friday, June 8, 2018

Raga clusters in Hindustani music

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This essay has been published in my book:
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Pt. Brijbhushan Kabra (1937-2018) and the Indian Classical Guitar

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Until the 1960s, the Hawaiian Slide Guitar had been heard mainly in film songs, and in the regional music of Bengal. The credit for elev...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Shaping a life in classical music

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Paper presented to the Seminar on Pedagogy of Performing Arts, hosted by the Lalit Kala  Kendra, Gurukul, Savitribai Phule Pune University...