The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal Williams Richard David
The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal Williams Richard David Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth…
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The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal Williams Richard David
Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century.How far did colonialism transform north Indian art music? Examining musical culture through a diverse and multilingual archive, primarily using sources in Urdu, Bengali, and Hindi that have not been translated or critically examined before, The Scattered Court challenges our assumptions about the period. In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the political landscape bleed into aesthetics, music, dance, and poetry?
He charts the movement of musicians and dancers between the two courts in Lucknow and Matiyaburj, as well as Richard David Williams presents a long history of interactions between northern India and Bengal, with a core focus on the two courts of Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last ruler of the kingdom of Awadh.
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