Böcker av Shubha Chaudhuri

Presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. This atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. It provides an ethnographic survey of musical traditions.

Explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. Illustrated throughout with halftones and accompanied by a compact disc of musical examples from many of the traditions discussed, this title is of interest to scholars of ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology.