Matrka: Voices Within

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Voices Within
Author Bombay Jayashri & T.M. Krishna, with Mythili Chandrasekar
Country India
Language English
Genre Non-fiction, novel
Publisher Mātṛkā
Publication date
 2007
Media type Print (hardcover with dust jacket)
Pages 188 pp
ISBN 81-7525-555-2
OCLC 122304641

Overview

This book is a result of the authors' desire to find ways of giving back something to an art that, as performing Carnatic musicians, has been their livelihood.

They pay tribute to some of the maestros who had an influence in shaping the system of Carnatic music, and bringing it to where it is now.

Contents

Seven is a magical number in Carnatic music. So Voices Within is about seven stalwarts who laid the foundation and chartered the course of Carnatic music They were musicians who were entrepreneurs.

The book deals with seven musicians of the last century:

Many biographies have been written about the above maestros. Voices Within presents its content about these people in a very different manner, new to the field of Carnatic music. It presents perspectives as opposed to direct information. It is more of an offering and a sharing and passing on of an inheritance.

Special Features

It is a coffee table book – the first of its kind in Carnatic music. It contains essays, rare photographs, letters, notes, Conversations and reflections between T.M. Krishna and Bombay Jayashri.

Snippets on the backdrop and the ethos of the times including:

  • Music and the Freedom Movement
  • Patronage of the arts moving from the kings to institutions
  • All India Radio
  • The talkies and Carnatic music
  • Madras becoming the capital for Carnatic music

Audience

In India, the book reaches out to a much larger audience than just the core Carnatic music rasika, as other books have in the past. Even they have only seen either theoretical books or biographies.

References

  • George, Nina C, "Two Authors and a Book", The Hindu
  • Ganesh, Deepa, "They are part of our being", The Hindu
  • Rajan, Anjana, "In Celebration of Musicians", The Hindu

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