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The Evolution of Modern Thumri
- Author(s):
- PETER MANUEL (see profile)
- Date:
- 1986
- Item Type:
- Article
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/hz3m-7v79
- Abstract:
- It is commonplace to speak of the extraordinary continuity of the India art music traditions, whose origins can be traced at least as far back a the Natyasastra (ca. 2nd c. B.C.). Although thumri, the predominant semi-classical genre of Hindustani music, did not rise to prominence until the mid-nineteenth century, circumstantial evidence links it with some certainty to counterparts in the Natyasastra's time. The antiquity of such traditions has no doubt contributed to the tendency, evident in scholarly as well a popular literature, to overlook the dramatic stylistic changes that have occurred in Hindustani music in the last 150 years. These developments ar particularly evident in the case of thumri, which has changed to the extent that it now bears little resemblance to its nineteenth-century namesake. The course of its evolution, like that of the classical khyal, has been intimately linked to the fundamental socio-economic transformations that South Asia has undergone during this period. This article attempts to examine the development of modern thumri from the perspective of these broader extra- musical changes
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- Published
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