Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (Music

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Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (Music / Culture)

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 shapes. The gestures that are improvised alongside vocal improvisation embody a special kind of melodic knowledge passed down tacitly through lineages of teachers and students who not only sound similar, but who also engage with music kinesthetically according to similar aesthetic and ethical ideals. Musicking Bodies builds on the insights of phenomenology, Indian and Western music theory, and cultural studies to illuminate not only the performance of gesture, but its implications for the transmission of culture, the conception of melody, and the very nature of the musicking body.

Country	USA
Author	Matthew Rahaim
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780819573261
ISBN	0819573264
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer	Wesleyan University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2012-10-29
Publisher	Wesleyan University Press
Studio	Wesleyan University Press
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Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (Music / Culture)