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Author Rahaim, Matthew

Title Musicking bodies : gesture and voice in Hindustani music / Matthew Rahaim
Published Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 182 pages) : illustrations
Series Music/culture
Music/culture
Contents A History of Moving and Singing in India -- Gesture and Melodic Motion -- Ragas as Spaces for Melodic Motion -- Melodic Motion in Time -- The Musicking Body -- The Paramparic Body
Summary This book investigates the life of the body in Indian vocal music
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Singing -- India
Gesture in music.
Hindustani music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Raga.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Gesture in music
Hindustani music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Raga
Singing
India
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012531
ISBN 9780819573278
0819573272