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Musicking bodies [electronic resource] : gesture and voice in Hindustani music / Matthew Rahaim.

Rahaim, Matthew. (Author).

Summary:

Investigates the life of the body in Indian vocal music.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780819573278 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0819573272 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 182 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. A History of Moving and Singing in India -- 2. Gesture and Melodic Motion -- 3. Ragas as Spaces for Melodic Motion -- 4. Melodic Motion in Time -- 5. The Musicking Body -- 6. The Paramparic Body.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
Singing > India.
Gesture in music.
MUSIC / Printed Music / Vocal
MUSIC / Lyrics
Hindustani music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Hindustani music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Raga.
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Voice
MUSIC > Lyrics.
Singing.
Raga.
Gesture in music.
Hindustani music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
India.
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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