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Music
and Modernity
North Indian Classical Music
in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
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Ed.
AMLAN DASGUPTA.
266 pp. Pb. ISBN 81-86017-34-8. 2007. Rs 160. |
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collection brings together essays by a number of scholars, researchers
and professionals in the field of music, offering a wide range of
viewpoints and approaches to the impact of modernity on the traditional
practices of north Indian classical music.
Jon Barlow, Urmila Bhirdikar, Suresh Chandvankar, |
| Siddhartha Ghosh,
Amelia Maciszewski, Adrian Mcneil, Rajeev Patke, Amlan Das Guta— specialists
in the fields of history of technology, instrument-making, record
collection and preservation, as well as performing artists and researchers
in the history and aesthetics of music— focus on the impact of technology
with the introduction of techniques of sound reproduction, as also
with the advent of print culture and the new values of reception and
learning. |
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Juddher
Chhayay
Alokeranjan Dasgupta |
Illustrations
by Dix, Grosz, Kollwitz, Tapan Bhattacharya, et al.
21.5 x 14 cm. 128 pp. 2003. Pb. Bengali.
ISBN 81-86017-49-6. Rs 100. |
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collage documenting the continuities of war, violence and homelessness
in original poems, translations, reportage, interviews and cartoons
and drawings. |
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My
Life
Khansahab Alladiya Khan
(as told to his grandson Azizuddin Khan)
Translated and introduced by Amlan Dasgupta and Urmila
Bhirdikar |
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33
archival photographs.
21.5 x 14 cm. 108 pp. 2000. Pb .English.
ISBN 81-86017-33-X. Rs 80. |
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autobiography of one of the greatest exponents of khayal belonging
to the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana in the golden age of Hindustani classical
music. |
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Anya
Gram Anya Pran
Purnendu Pattrea |
Jacket
design and Illustrations by Punyabrata Pattrea.
24 x 19 cm. 128 pp. 1998. Hb. Bengali.
ISBN 81-86017-12-7. Rs 110. |
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activist writer's account of a left-wing peasant rebellion in Bengal
in the 1940s. Posthumously published.
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Upanyashey
Ateet: Itihas O Kalpa-Itihas
Meenakshi Mukherjee |
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Cover
design by Ajoy Gupta.
21.5 x 14 cm. 174 pp. 2003. Pb. Bengali.
ISBN 81-86017-45-3. Rs 100. |
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study of historical fiction in Bengali and Hindi in the colonial period.
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Portraits
and Memories
S.C. Sengupta. |
Cover
design by Ajoy Gupta.
21.5 x 14 cm. 224 pp. 2003. Pb. English.
ISBN 81-86017-40-2. Rs 130. |
| Memoiral
essays on teachers and scholars in twentieth century Calcutta, offering
a view of colonial education. |
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Kolkatar
Rastay Rastay
Ranajit Singha |
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Cover
design by Ajoy Gupta.
Photographs by Ranajit Singha.
21.5 x 14 cm. 117 pp. 2002. Pb. Bengali.
ISBN 81-86017-39-9. Rs 100. |
A
photographer-poet's discovery of Kolkata in the early morning hours. |
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Darbari
Shilper Swaroop: Mughal Chitrakala
Ratnabali Chatterjee |
21.5
x 14 cm. 120 pp. 1999. Pb. Bengali.
ISBN 81-86017-15-1. Rs 160. |
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study of Mughal paintings by the leading artists from a historical
and art historical perspective; with insights into the ideological
impact of the court and the first interactions with Europaen art.
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Nirbas
Sudhir Chakravarti |
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Jacket
design by Ajoy Gupta. Illustrations by Khaled Chowdhury and Pankaj
Bandyopadhyay.
24 x 19 cm. 208 pp. 1995. Hb. Bengali.
ISBN 81-86017-07-0. Rs 120. |
| Sudhir
Chakravorty, best known for his studies of the life and music of
the subreligious sects of Bengal, offers a set of profiles of individuals
rendered homeless under varying circumstances. |
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