Papers by Allyn Miner
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1999
It is also an imortant text for the change it reflects in understanding the ragas and raginis ass... more It is also an imortant text for the change it reflects in understanding the ragas and raginis assigning gender and visualising an iconography.
Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India, 2015
Acknowledgements ix Note on Transliteration xi Note on Dating Systems xii List of Illustrations x... more Acknowledgements ix Note on Transliteration xi Note on Dating Systems xii List of Illustrations xiii Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgements This volume brings together the papers presented at the third and final conference of the AHRC-funded project "North Indian Literary Culture and History from a Multilingual Perspective: 1450-1650", which Francesca ran at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) between 2006-2009 and in which Katherine was intimately involved from start to finish. The conference was initially entitled "Tellings, Not Texts", but over the course of the three days it became clear that texts were very much involved in many of the performance forms and traditions we were discussing, hence the change of title. (The first conference volume, After Timur Left, came out in 2014 from Oxford University Press, New Delhi, co-edited by Francesca and Samira Sheikh.) We would first of all like to thank the AHRC for its generous support. The conference, which took place on 8-10 June 2009, benefited from a British Academy conference support grant, for which we are also grateful, as we are to the European Research Council which supported Katherine's contributions in the latter stages. We would like here to heartily thank all the contributors for their patience and good humour as we asked for more and more changes. We thank Alessandra Tosi for her enthusiasm and welcome, and Dr David Lunn for careful copy-editing. Our dear friend Aditya Behl helped plan the conference and was supposed to come, but was in the end too ill to travel. He died, tragically young, two months later. We would like to dedicate the volume to him, for he remains in our thoughts and in our love.
Acknowledgements ix Note on Transliteration xi Note on Dating Systems xii List of Illustrations x... more Acknowledgements ix Note on Transliteration xi Note on Dating Systems xii List of Illustrations xiii Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgements This volume brings together the papers presented at the third and final conference of the AHRC-funded project "North Indian Literary Culture and History from a Multilingual Perspective: 1450-1650", which Francesca ran at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) between 2006-2009 and in which Katherine was intimately involved from start to finish. The conference was initially entitled "Tellings, Not Texts", but over the course of the three days it became clear that texts were very much involved in many of the performance forms and traditions we were discussing, hence the change of title. (The first conference volume, After Timur Left, came out in 2014 from Oxford University Press, New Delhi, co-edited by Francesca and Samira Sheikh.) We would first of all like to thank the AHRC for its generous support. The conference, which took place on 8-10 June 2009, benefited from a British Academy conference support grant, for which we are also grateful, as we are to the European Research Council which supported Katherine's contributions in the latter stages. We would like here to heartily thank all the contributors for their patience and good humour as we asked for more and more changes. We thank Alessandra Tosi for her enthusiasm and welcome, and Dr David Lunn for careful copy-editing. Our dear friend Aditya Behl helped plan the conference and was supposed to come, but was in the end too ill to travel. He died, tragically young, two months later. We would like to dedicate the volume to him, for he remains in our thoughts and in our love.
The Sangitopanisatsaroddhara (SUS) is a manual on music written in 1350 by the Jain scholar Sudha... more The Sangitopanisatsaroddhara (SUS) is a manual on music written in 1350 by the Jain scholar Sudhakalasa who belonged to a lineage centered in western India, primarily Gujarat. It was composed one hundred years subsequent to the great compendium of medieval musicology, the Sangitaratnakara, and fifty-two years after the permanent establishment of Muslim rule in Gujarat. The SUS treats many of the main topics of medieval musicological discourse, but has been noted for the introduction of several new ideas which were carried into the later musical and musicological practices of north India. The changes that it represents in comparison to the Sangitaratnakara and its position at a pivotal and relatively unexplored time in the history of north Indian music make this a uniquely valuable document. The literature, architectural constructs and paintings which emerged in surprising abundance, especially from the Jain community at this time in Gujarat, make the time and region especially rich in sources for a study of cultural history. As literature reflected new vernacular and populist choices, and painting adapted techniques and motifs from Persian court traditions, the SUS documents a breakdown of many of the musicological categories of earlier periods, and suggests that the thinking on and the practices of music were undergoing a parallel process of dissolution and vernacularization. This study has two main parts. The first sections summarize aspects of the cultural history of twelfth to fourteenth-century Gujarat, examine the contexts of musical performance practice and the tradition of sangitasastra, and summarize the positions that the SUS takes on each of its main topics of discussion. The second part consists of the text in Devanagari followed by an annotated translation
Tellings and Texts by Allyn Miner
Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature, and Performance in North India, 2015
The extensive theoretical introduction to Francesa Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield, Telling... more The extensive theoretical introduction to Francesa Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield, Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature, and Performance in North India (Cambridge: Open Book, 2015). Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of music, literature and dramatization. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and storytelling.
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