Music, modernity, and publicness in India

Foreword / by Thomas Christensen

Introduction / Tejaswini Niranjana

part I. Music and modernity

1. Musical publics in twentieth-century Madras: competing narratives of sonic sociability /

Lakshmi Subramanian

2. The ustads from the North, the public sphere, and the classicization of music in late nineteeenth-century Calcutta /

Adrian McNeil

3. Hindustani music and the emergence of a lingua musica in Mumbai /

Tejaswini Niranjana

part II. New musical publics and the formation of taste

4. Govind Sadashiv Tembe and the education of taste in Maharashtra /

Urmila Bhirdikar

5. Artists in the open: Indian classical musicians in the mid-twentieth century /

Amlan Das Gupta

part III. Inter-medial publics

6. Seeing print, hearing song: tracking the film song through the Hindi popular print sphere, c. 1955-75 /

Vebhuti Duggal

7. Rewind and play: romantic music of the 1990s in the cinematic public sphere /

Abhija Ghosh

8. The public sphere of marketed sound: the business of early recorded music in India /

Vibodh Parthasarathi

part IV. Music and popular politics

9. Singing in the fray: radical publics and popular entertainment in South India /

Kaley Mason

10. Vernacular music traditions and their publics: the political dimensions of sounds and technologies /

Aditi Deo

Bibliography

About the editor and contributors

Index.