Musicology, Music:

 
Music and Modernity
North Indian Classical Music
in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Thema Books - Music and Modernity -  North Indian Classical Music
Ed. AMLAN DASGUPTA.
266 pp. Pb. ISBN 81-86017-34-8. 2007. Rs 160.
This 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.
Thema Books - Sangeetsurya Ustad Amir Khan - Pandit Tejpal Singh Dr Prerana Arora and Meena Banerjee NEW
Sangeetsurya Ustad Amir Khan: Jeebanakatha, Sangeetakeerti O Bandish Sangraha [In Bengali]

Pandit Tejpal Singh and Dr Prerana Arora. Translated from Hindi by Meena Banerjee
Hb. 18.5 x 24.5 cm. x+148 pp. 28 b/w photographs. Rs. 350. ISBN 978-81-86017-67-8
An anthoritative biography of Ustad Amir Khan (1912-74), a master vocalist in Hindusthani Classical Music, with an analysis of his performance style, and his complete bandishes with notations.
Mor Bandhu Kajalbhomra
Kali Dasgupta
Thema Books - Mor Bandhu Kajalbhomra - Kali Dasgupta
Hb. 11 x 18.5 cm. vi + 108 pp. Rs 50. Bengali ISBN 81-86017-66-6

A radical folk singer’s thoughts on Bengali folk songs and his collection of traditional songs.

Thema Books - Hindustani Sangeetey Tansener Sthan - Birendrakishore Roychaudhuri Hindustani Sangeetey Tansener Sthan [Tansen’s Contribution to Hindustani Music]
Birendrakishore Roychaudhuri
Pb. 14 x 21.5 cm. 142 pp. 11 rare b/w photos. Rs 100. Bengali ISBN 81-86017-65-8
This revised Thema edition brings together a rare musicological text, enriched with rare archival photographs of the maestro and select correspondence with Baba Alanddin Khan Pandit S N Ratanjhankar.
My Life
Khansahab Alladiya Khan
(as told to his grandson Azizuddin Khan)

Translated and introduced by Amlan Dasgupta and Urmila Bhirdikar
Thema Books - My Life - Khansahab Alladiya Khan (as told to his grandson Azizuddin Khan) Translated and introduced by Amlan Dasgupta and  Urmila Bhirdikar
33 archival photographs.
21.5 x 14 cm. 108 pp. 2000. Pb .English.
ISBN 81-86017-33-X. Rs 80
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The 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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