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Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India : Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858 by Katherine Butler Schofield (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-10100904852X

ISBN-139781009048521

eBay Product ID (ePID)2333201976

Product Key Features

Book TitleMusic and Musicians in Late Mughal India : Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858

Number of Pages343 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Criticism, General

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic

AuthorKatherine Butler Schofield

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2023-018212

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230510

Reviews'Katherine Schofield's path-breaking account of music and musicians from the late Mughal period is a lesson in music history and historiography for musicians, music scholars and students in India. Her detailed analysis of texts written in multiple languages as well as pictorial sources will enlighten students and performers like myself about trajectories that moulded Hindustani music to the shape we experience today. This book will also go a long way in breaking myths and stereotypes about Muslim practitioners of this music that have for so long coloured our understanding of the past.' Aneesh Pradhan, Tabla player, composer and author

Dewey Decimal780.954

Table Of ContentIntroduction: 1. Chasing eurydice: writing on music in the late Mughal world; 2. The Mughal orpheus: remembering Khushhal Khan Gunasamudra in eighteenth-century Delhi; 3. The rivals: Anjha Baras, Adarang and the scattering of Shahjahanabad; 4. The courtesan and the Memsahib: Khanum Jan and Sophia Plowden at the court of Lucknow; 5. Eclipsed by the Moon: Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad; 6. Faithful to the salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India company in Rajasthan; 7. Keeper of the flame: Miyan Himmat Khan and the last of the Mughal Emperors; 8. Orphans of the uprising: late Mughal Echoes and 1857.

SynopsisBased on a vast, virtually unstudied archive in Indian languages and Persian, this book reawakens the lost voices of celebrated Indian musicians, men and women, who endured the momentous transition from Mughal to British rule. It will appeal to readers interested in Indian music, global music history, South Asian history, empire and colonialism., Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive of Indian writings alongside visual sources, this book presents the first history of music and musicians in late Mughal India c.1748-1858 and takes the lives of nine musicians as entry points into six prominent types of writing on music in Persian, Brajbhasha, Urdu and English, moving from Delhi to Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur and among the British. It shows how a key Mughal cultural field responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule, while addressing a central philosophical question: can we ever recapture the ephemeral experience of music once the performance is over? These rich, diverse sources shine new light on the wider historical processes of this pivotal transitional period, and provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the precise period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form.

LC Classification NumberML338.4.S36 2023