Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (Music Culture)
“Ranging authoritatively through the fecund terrain of Hindusthani music, Matthew Rahaim reunites musical sound with the bodies that produce it, refuting the discourses and practices that have kept them apart, and revealing their powerful complementarity. The book is concise, smart, erudite, imaginative, and generous on every page. Raga and tala emerge enriched, performers and theorists find common purpose, and music becomes something even bigger and more profound.” (Michael Tenzer, author of Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music)