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Musicking Bodies
Matthew Rahaim
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Description for Musicking Bodies
Paperback. Investigates the life of the body in Indian vocal music Num Pages: 208 pages, 57 illus., 1 table. BIC Classification: AVGE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from their teachers, and the motion of the hand and voice are always intimately connected. Though observers of Indian classical music have long commented on these gestures, Musicking Bodies is the first extended study of what singers actually do with their hands and voices. Matthew Rahaim draws on years of vocal training, ethnography, and close analysis to demonstrate the ways in which hand gesture is used alongside vocalization to manifest melody as dynamic, three-dimensional ... Read more
Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from their teachers, and the motion of the hand and voice are always intimately connected. Though observers of Indian classical music have long commented on these gestures, Musicking Bodies is the first extended study of what singers actually do with their hands and voices. Matthew Rahaim draws on years of vocal training, ethnography, and close analysis to demonstrate the ways in which hand gesture is used alongside vocalization to manifest melody as dynamic, three-dimensional ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819573261
SKU
V9780819573261
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About Matthew Rahaim
Matthew Rahaim (Minneapolis, MN) is associate professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Minnesota, author of Musicking Bodies, and a practicing Hindustani vocalist in the Gwalior tradition.
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