Catalogue

The Tabla of Lucknow: A Cultural Analysis of a Musical Tradition

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Genre:Hindustani Classical

Code:07PR006BK

Price:650 INR / 20 USD

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Language: English



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Description

This book presents a synoptic overview of music making in the city of Lucknow based on ethnomusicological fieldwork conducted in the early to mid 1980s. It also documents and explores Lucknow;s celebrated tradition of tabla drumming as seen through the eyes of the head of the family of hereditary tabla specialists associated with the city since the late eighteenth century, Afaq Husain Khan (1930-90).