Shubha mudgal (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 'Seven sparkling, side-splitting yarns about the financial shenanigans, pettiness and pitfalls of India's giant music industry.' Telegraph What happens when a cunning PR brain brings together star singers from India and Pakistan in a concert for peace? Or when a Hindustani vocalist, long denied a foreign tour, flies from Pune to Philadelphia? How does it all end when a harmonium player desirous of a Padma Shri Award comes to a mighty Ustad for a recommendation? Or when a Hollywood director phones a classical singer, offering to make her a sensation? And is it really a good idea for an old-world recording company to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century, or a bhajan-singer to compose songs for Hollywood? In her debut work of fiction, one of India's finest and most musicians gives us some startling, supremely entertaining answers. .…

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Understanding Shabd aur Sangeet/Javed Akhtar. Introduction/Shubha Mudgal, Aneesh Pradhan and Kunal Ray. 1. Seeing the Singer: Early Portraits of Surdas from Udaipur/Jack Hawley. 2. Travels of Song-Texts: Hindi Film Songs in 'Translation'/Chandrani Chatterjee and Vikki Gayakavad. 3. Song as Subversion and Individualism Encountering Poetry as Performance in Bhardwaj's 'Haider'/Asijit Dutta. 4. Songs as History: The Lamkang Naga Experience/Shelmi Sankhil. 5. The Song of Rural Life: Barahmasa in G. F. Riaz's Poetry/Rohit Sharma. 6. Towards a New Shabd aur Sangeet: A study on the Politics of Vernacularizing the Liturgical Music of the Syrian Christians of Malabar/George Pioustin. 7. Dasya Bhava and Vatsalya Bhava in the Bhakti of Borgeet: A Vaishnavite Music Form of Assam/Dipanjali Deka. 8. The Idea of Erotic in the female tradition of Bangla Viraha genre/Bashabi Barua. 9. Poetics and Politics of Spirituality in Akka's Vachanas/Nishtha Saxena. 10. Finding Shakti through Bhakti Andal--the Empowered One/Chitra Sreedharan. 11. Song-Text and the Protest Song: Understanding the Musical Tradition of the IPTA/Sumangala Damodaran. 12. Contemporary Dalit Identity in Marathi Bhim Geet/Tushar Meshram. 13. Phenomenology of A Radical Aesthetics: Embodied Memories and Enmeshed 'Shabd-O-Sangeet' in Kobi-gaan from the Matua/Namasudra Performance Repertoire/Benil Biswas. 14. Pichakaaree: Songs of Protest and Celebration in an Indo-Caribbean Community/Sharda Patasar. In India, where oral traditions predate hand scripted manuscripts or printed compilations, poets with vastly varied literary impulses have written poems prescribing musical rendering in specific raags, taals and genres. There also exists a flourishing tradition of musicians and composers selectively extracting a few lines from a larger existing poem or narrative verse for use in forms that demand relatively less wordiness. Briefly then, there is ample evidence to prove that the giving, sharing, borrowing and lending between literature and music is in itself an established tradition in India where the vaggeyakar or song composer is often both poet and music composer. In the contemporary context, where music is as much 'seen' as heard, the study and analysis of the song-text in India as evinced in this volume must be an interdisciplinary and collaborative activity between musicians, composers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists and scholars and students of music, literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, sociology, psychology, media, theatre, film and phonology. This book therefore brings on board new ways of thinking and responding to the song-text in India.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Set in the heart of the world of Indian music, these are stories with a rhythm entirely their own. They speak of hope and disaster, genius and fakery in surprising ways. And they are wickedly funny.'JERRY PINTO After thousands of hours of training and practice, the gods of music smile upon the deserving few. Genius shines; melody and goodness reign supreme; and all is right with the world.Or is it What happens, for instance, when a cunning PR brain brings together two star musicians from India and Pakistan in a concert for peace Or when a Hindustani vocalist, long denied a foreign tour, flies from Pune to Philadelphia Or when a small-town music teacher and a big-city businessman team up to plan a hunt for India's best new classical talentand make a few crores in the process How does it all end when a harmonium player desirous of a Padma Shri award comes to a powerful ustad for a recommendation Or when a Bollywood director calls a classical singer, offering to make her a sensation, like the mysterious Miss Sargam whom no one hears anymore but everyone remembers And is it really a good idea for an old-world recording company to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century, or a devotee of a pious godwoman to compose songs for Hollywood In this, her debut work of fiction, one of India's finest and most original musicians has produced a sparkling collectionutterly distinctive, hugely entertaining and mercilessly funny. …

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnA widely acclaimed singer, Shubha Mudgal has been a student, performer, teacher, composer and columnist for several decades. She has specialized in the Hindustani classical genres of khayal and thumri-dadra, and her invo.