Lecture - New Mansions for Music December 5, 2008

Lecture - New Mansions for Music. Speaker: Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor, Dept. of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia. Chair: Shri Keshav Desiraju.

The lecture will look at some of the key issues that came up in public debates on music and its reconfiguration in the twentieth century in southern India. Specifically it will look at music criticism as a genre and how it never developed a conceptual vocabulary to confront issues of authenticity and musical values.