Imaging sound
Subtitle: an ethnomusicological study of music, art, and culture in Mughal India
By: Bonnie C. Wade.
Series: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Music -- India -- History and criticism.; Music -- Mogul Empire -- History and criticism.; Music in art.
Description: The rulers of the Mughal Empire of India, who reigned from 1526 to 1858, spared no expense as patrons of the arts, particularly painting and music. They left as their legacy an extraordinarily rich body of commissioned artistic projects including illustrated manuscripts and miniature paintings that represent musical instruments, portraits of musicians, and the compositions of ensembles. These images form the basis of Bonnie C.

Wade's study of how musicians of Hindustan encountered and Indianized music from the Persian cultural sphere. Imaging Sound is a contribution to many fields in its unique combination of sources and methods: it is the study of musical change; of image-making in the past and the methodological use of images as "texts" in the present; of the role of patronage in the Mughal Empire; and of the development of South Asian culture.
Notes: Includes Gallery Section: colour plates and black and white figures. Index of illustrations (p. 265-268) Includes glossary. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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