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“matthew rahaim”

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  • Ways of Voice

    Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond

    by Matthew Rahaim ...
    Ways of Voice explores techniques of voice production in North India, from Bollywood to raga music to ghazal to devotional hymns and Sufi song. The voices in play here are not merely given, but achieved. Singers consciously train themselves to cultivate characteristic vocal gaits, sonorities, and poetic attunements; they adopt postures of the vocal apparatus; they build habits of listening, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Musicking Bodies

    Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music

    by Matthew Rahaim ...
    Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from their teachers, and the motion of the hand and voice are always intimately connected. Though observers of Indian classical music have long commented on these gestures, Musicking Bodies is the first ... Read more

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  • Raga Sangeet

    Understanding Hindustani Classical Vocal Music

    by Samarth Nagarkar ...
    In an incredible effort, this short book takes one through a musical journey of a lifetime. From mastering a single note to the complexities of raga exposition and emotional expression, from the basic musical perception of time to masterful and intricate rhythmic play, it explores a student’s journey through learning, assimilation and an ultimate alchemic transformation into an artiste. For ... Read more

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  • A Southern Music

    Exploring the Karnatik Tradition

    by T.M. Krishna ...
    One of the foremost Karnatik vocalists today, T.M. Krishna writes lucidly and passionately about the form, its history, its problems and where it stands todayT.M. Krishna begins his sweeping exploration of the tradition of Karnatik music with a fundamental question: what is music? Taking nothing for granted and addressing readers from across the spectrum - musicians, musicologists as well as ... Read more

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  • Theorizing Sound Writing

    by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Images of the Body in India

    South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity

    Edited by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf ...
    This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading.Divided into three parts, the book examines the considerable and often ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • A Southern Music

    by T.M. Krishna ...
    T.M. Krishna, one of the foremost Karnatik vocalists today, begins his panoramic exploration of that tradition with a fundamental question: what is music? Taking nothing for granted and addressing diverse readers from Karnatik music's rich spectrum and beyond it, Krishna provides a path-breaking overview of south Indian classical music. He advances provocative ideas about various aspects of its ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Music in Contemporary Indian Film

    Memory, Voice, Identity

    Edited by Jayson Beaster-Jones, Natalie Sarrazin ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity provides a rich and detailed look into the unique dimensions of music in Indian film. Music is at the center of Indian cinema, and India’s film music industry has a far-reaching impact on popular, folk, and classical music across the subcontinent and the South Asian diaspora. In twelve essays written by an international array of scholars, ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Understanding Rituals

    Edited by Daniel de Coppet ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's cultural identity and social relations. By examining specific rituals from various theoretical ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Vibration

    Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

    by Marcus Boon ...
    In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern

    The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India

    by Amanda J. Weidman ...
    While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial modernity, nationalist ideology, and South Indian regional politics. As Amanda J. Weidman demonstrates, in order for Karnatic ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Hinduism

    A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation

    by Shyam Ranganathan ...
    Series series Investigating Philosophy of Religion
    Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation explores Hinduism and the distinction between the secular and religious on a global scale. According to Ranganathan, a careful philosophical study of Hinduism reveals it as the microcosm of philosophical disagreements with Indian resources, across a variety of topics, including: ethics, logic, the philosophy of thought, epistemology, moral ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD