ETHNOMUS 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alghoza, Sitar, Sarangi
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Bollywood = hindi film industry: bombay + hollywood, musicals, most prolific film industry in the world, capitalized on hybridity. Created its own new, yet foundationally indian, identity from the blending of different musics, instead of losing its indian soul underneath all the fusion. Treatise on theater = all indian classical arts have origins in naatya shaastra. Description of effective performance in theater, dance, music. Written in 13th century by indian musicologist sharnagadeva. Indian classical music based on subtitles of melody. Western based off of systems of harmony. Non-classical: folk theater present all over india, particularly parsi theater thriving in mumbai from. Elements: indian classical dance and music (mainly kathak dance and hindustani music) Began to adopt islamic elements from the muslin culture prevalent there. Most often describes the divine love affair of the hindu god, krishna, and his supreme lover, radha.
