Reimagine to Revitalise - New Approaches to Performance Practices Across Cultures

Sheds light on Western musical performance by exploring shared vocal techniques of South Indian classical music and Monteverdi's operas.

List of contents

1. The Pressing Need: An Interrogation of Practices; 2. Understanding Monteverdi's Poetic Aesthetic; 3. Developing a Conceptual Framework for Hybridity; 4. The Powerful Spirit of Ornamentation; 5. Reimagination: Critiques, Opportunities, Conclusions; References; Appendix: Dimensions of Interaction in Karnatik Music and Early Opera.

About the author

Dr Charulatha Mani is a well-established vocal performer/researcher with expertise in Karnatik music of South India. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia on intercultural intersections between seventeenth century Italian Opera and Karnatik Music. She loves to challenge boundaries of convention and is an active scholar-pedagogue in the fields of historical musicology and ethnomusicology, artistic research, and voice studies. Website: www.charulathamani.com.

Product details

• Authors: Charulatha Mani
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781108829731
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82973-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice; Elements in Twenty-First Centu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, World Music, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Other global and regional music styles