HumanitiesMusicologyEthnomusicologyHistorical MusicologyMusic SociologyIndian StudiesMusic ConsumptionMusic HistoriographyMusic SubculturesPopular MusicTwentieth-century MusicHistoriography Of Popular MusicModern Indian HistoryModernization Of Traditional MusicPopular Music CirculationPopular Music HistorySocial History Of MusicTwentieth-century Historiography
The dramatic development of popular music in India illustrates some of the complex and varied ways that South Asians have used art and entertainment as a means of adapting and relating to the social transitions accompanying modernisation. Indian popular music, nevertheless, has been all but ignored in scholarly literature, whether musicological or sociological; this article endeavours to provide a basis for future inquiries by providing a descriptive outline of the development of modern Indian commercial music in the twentieth century.
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The Evolution of Modern Thumri
Peter Manuel · Ethnomusicology · 1986 · 11 citations · Full text