The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition

by Daniel M. Neuman

Book Overview

Daniel M. Neuman offers an account of North Indian Hindustani music culture and the changing social context of which it is part, as expressed in the thoughts and actions of its professional musicians.

Drawing primarily from fieldwork performed in Delhi in 1969-71--from interviewing musicians, learning and performing on the Indian fiddle, and speaking with music connoisseurs--Neuman examines the cultural and social matrix in which Hindustani...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226575160
• ISBN13: 9780226575162
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"