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Music of Indian Art & Archaeology

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Item Code: UAJ322
Author: Gowri Kuppuswamy and M. Hariharan
Publisher: B.R. Rhythms, Delhi
Language: English
Edition: 2015
ISBN: 9788188827503
Pages: 158 (B/W Illustrations)
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9.50 X 6.50 inch
Weight 480 gm
Book Description
About the Book
From the evidence contained in the creative literature, texts and manuals, sculptural reliefs, architectural monuments, inscriptional and epigraphical records etc, it is obvious that music flourished at all levels of the society and also that each region was culturally related to other regions far and near. And yet not withstanding these inter relationships and mutual borrowing, some regions because of political events, some because of I migration from other parts of the country and some through the pilgrims, developed distinct cultural identities. The literary, archaeological, epigraphical, mural and miniature traditions are the first and the last records which help us study the development of music and dance through the ages. The main thrust of the f the present study was to find out how far music attained the present state of perfection through visual art forms or in other words non performing art-forms like sculpture, painting etc., for which the temples are the main sources, and also to trace if any continuous link could be established to the development of music and musicology through the ages. No single publication worth mentioning is available on this theme of research. The studies already conducted elsewhere do not deal with the sculpture, painting, epigraphical and other archaeological sources in a single perspective covering the four states of south India viz., Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Kerala & Andhra Pradesh.

About the Author
Prof. Gowri Kuppuswamy (Retired Prof. and Head of the Music department at the College of Fine Arts, University of Mysore) is a well known and seasoned Performing Artiste and have performed more than 6000 Music Concerts and has trained more than 300 students in Classical Music Tradition. She has served as Faculty at the Mysore University for more than three decades. She has guided and supervised more than 10 Ph.D candidates a various Universities in South India. She has written and edited more than 40 books and 50 Fand Research Publications published in Jounals in India and Abroad, on various aspects of Indian Music. She has been honoured with several Titles and Awards by accredited Associations all over India including the prestigious Music Academy in 1972. The Prestigious Gayan Samaj, Bangalore honored her with the Sangita Kalaratna title and award in Nov 2012. Currently she is working on two new projects on compositions of Purandaradasa and Mysore Vasudevachar.

Dr. M.Hariharan M. Mus., M.Ed., Ph.D., Ph.D (Hon.) USA, is the former Principal of RAAK Arts and Science College and Special officer, Dept. of Art & Culture, Government of Pondicherry. He is an accredited authority on Indian Music Therapy and Sound healing and travels world wide. He has given more than 600 workshops and lectures in several Universities in U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, UK. Norway, Netherlands, Spain and many other European countries for conducting Music Therapy Workshops, Lectures and Healing Concerts. Along with Prof. Gowri Kuppuswamy (his mother and mentor) he has jointly authored more than 40 books and 50 Research din Journals in India and Abroad, on various aspects of Indian Music Publications published in He was awarded the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award for Music and the Fellowship of Kerala Sangeet Natak Academy for Musicology. Dr. Hariharan has composed and published more than 30 Audio CD's/DVD's on various aspects of Indian Music Therapy for curing Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Depression, stress, Anxiety, Cancer, Body weight, Pain, Nervous Disorder, Alzheimer's, Memory Loss etc.

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