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The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

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by Richard David Williams

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  • Title The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
  • Author Richard David Williams
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date First Edition NO-PA16APR201
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6396051435
  • ISBN 9780226825434 / 0226825434
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Wajid Ali Shah, Hindustani music - India - Bengal - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022032914
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.954
  • Quantity available 3

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Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century.

How far did colonialism transform north Indian music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the political landscape bleed into aesthetics, music, dance, and poetry? Examining musical culture through a diverse and multilingual archive, primarily using sources in Urdu, Bengali, and Hindi that have not been translated or critically examined before, The Scattered Court challenges our assumptions about the period. Richard David Williams presents a long history of interactions between northern India and Bengal, with a core focus on the two courts of Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last ruler of the kingdom of Awadh. He charts the movement of musicians and dancers between the two courts in Lucknow and Matiyaburj, as well as the transregional circulation of intellectual traditions and musical genres, and demonstrates the importance of the exile period for the rise of Calcutta as a celebrated center of Hindustani classical music. Since Lucknow is associated with late Mughal or Nawabi society and Calcutta with colonial modernity, examining the relationship between the two cities sheds light on forms of continuity and transition over the nineteenth century, as artists and their patrons navigated political ruptures and social transformations. The Scattered Court challenges the existing historiography of Hindustani music and Indian culture under colonialism by arguing that our focus on Anglophone sources and modernizing impulses has directed us away from the aesthetic subtleties, historical continuities, and emotional dimensions of nineteenth-century music.

About the author

Richard David Williams is a senior lecturer in music and South Asian studies at SOAS University of London.

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