• ISBN13: 9781905422074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: October 16, 2006
• Pages: 540
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1729 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Ethnomusicology

About the Book Bards, Ballads and Boundaries presents an atlas of one of the world s richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. Based on extensive statistical and cultural data, it provides an ethnographic survey of musical traditions organized on the basis of specific communities of music specialists, their patrons, and the music they produce. Much of the cultural context of Rajasthan s musical history is based on the epic songs of its bardic traditions. These traditions are very much alive today and now enjoy a new global audience extending far beyond Rajasthan s borders.

Chaudhuri, Shubha: - Shubha Chaudhuri is Director of the Archives & Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Anthony Seeger is Professor of Ethnomusicology at University of California at Los Angeles.

Kothari, Komal: - Daniel Neuman is Executive Vice Chancellor at UCLA in Los Angles and the author of Life and Music in North India. Shubha Chaudhuri is the Director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is also the Vice-President, International Association of Sound and Visual Archives. Komal Kothari was director and founder of Rupayan Sansthan, an institute of folklore in Rajasthan for over four decades.

Neuman, Daniel: - Daniel Neuman is Executive Vice Chancellor at UCLA in Los Angles and the author of Life and Music in North India. Shubha Chaudhuri is the Director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies. She is also the Vice-President, International Association of Sound and Visual Archives. Komal Kothari was director and founder of Rupayan Sansthan, an institute of folklore in Rajasthan for over four decades.