Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India
“Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modernis a brilliant critique of the emergence of Karnatic music as a ‘classical’ art during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Situating her account within modernist and colonialist discourses of the authentic subject, Amanda J. Weidman explores a broad range of sources, from little-known early-twentieth-century Indian texts (in Tamil, Sanskrit, and Telugu) to contemporary studies in anthropology and musicology to feminist and media theory.”—Katherine Bergeron, author ofDecadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes