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The Tamil Padam Matthew Harp Allen

The Tamil Padam By Matthew Harp Allen

The Tamil Padam by Matthew Harp Allen

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This book is a study of the Bharata Natyam dance genre padam and focuses on its patrons and composers and its formal structure, texts, and music. It examines the rewriting of South Indian dance and the decades-long debates over the classicization and ownership of South Indian music.

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The Tamil Padam: A Dance Music Genre of South India by Matthew Harp Allen

  • Studies the Bharata Natyam dance genre padam and focuses on its patrons and composers and its formal structure, texts, and music
  • Examines the rewriting of South Indian dance and the decades-long debates over the classicization and ownership of South Indian music
  • The text includes 30 Tamil language songs, minutely translated and annotated together with a documentation of their performance history in the 20th century

About Matthew Harp Allen

Matthew Harp Allen is Professor Emeritus of Music and Asian Studies at Wheaton College (Massachusetts, USA). He was a long-time student of South Indian vocal music with T. Viswanathan, with whom he co-authored Music in South India (Oxford University Press). He has written several articles on the social history of Bharata Natyam dance and the classicization of music in South India in the 20th century.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Two: Kings, Devotion, Patronage, Padams 3. Padakkarars, Composers: Composition, Change, and Biography 4. Sahityam, Texts: A System of Texts 5. Sangitam, Music: Principle of Selection of Material 6. Conclusion

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NPB9789814968560
9789814968560
9814968560
The Tamil Padam: A Dance Music Genre of South India by Matthew Harp Allen
Matthew Harp Allen
New
Hardback
Jenny Stanford Publishing
2023-03-31
424
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