Date: 17-Dec-2007 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: The Grammar of Carnatic Music: Vijayakrishnan E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Grammar of Carnatic Music
Series Title: Phonology & Phonetics 8
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Author: K.G. Vijayakrishnan
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110183139 Pages: 342 Price: Europe EURO 118.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110183139 Pages: 342 Price: U.S. $ 165.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Abstract:
This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/mid eighteenth century. Earlier varieties or 'incarnations' of Indian music elaborately described in many musical treatises are only of historical relevance today as the music described is quite different from current practices. It is argued that earlier varieties may not have survived because they failed to meet the three crucial requirements for a language-like organism to survive i.e., a robust community of practitioners/listeners which the author calls the Carnatic Music Fraternity, a sizeable body of musical texts and a felt communicative need. In fact, the central thesis of the book is that Carnatic music, like language, survived and evolved from early/mid eighteenth century when these three requirements were met for the first time in the history of Indian music. The volume includes a foreword by Paul Kiparsky.
Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
Areal Regions:
East Asian
South Asian
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