Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music

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Abhisheki, Jitendra “Abhisheki-buwa,” 5–6, 108, 111, 118, 120–22, 125–26, 129 Abhisheki, Shaunak, 7, 92, 95, 121, 129 accompaniment: gestural communication between performers, 7, 11–12; keeping tala, 71; melodic improvisation and, 70–71; video analysis and, 139 action understanding, 118, 156 ada, 144n4 Adzenyah, Abraham, 150n14 Agra gharana, 6, 80, 110–11, 122, 127, 129 alap, 5, 74–76, 74–75, 78, 156 Allen, Matthew, 25 amad, 78, 156 andolan (undulation): modes of articulating , 101–6, 149n7, 156; in Rag Darbari, 59; teaching of, 102, 102, 114 andolit svaras, 49, 63, 101–2, 156 anti-nautch campaign, 23 Aristotle, 143n1 aroh, 35 Arolkar, Sharatchandra, 125 atman, 13 Atreya, Shanti Prakash, 127 audience, 6, 7, 84, 143n3. See also listening avartan: defined, 71, 156; avartan bharna (filling the avartan), 81, 81, 148n6; melodic retention and, 46, 147n4; mukhra relationship with, 77, 78, 99, 115; phrasing and, 79; in vilambit khyals, 76 ayurveda, 18–19 bahlava, 85, 148n8, 156 Baiju Bawra (1952), 21, 146n2 Bailur, Chitra, 30 Baily, John, 11 Bakhle, Janaki, 20–21 Balasaraswati, 144n3 Bamberger, Jeanne, 57 bandish, 68, 126, 156 barhat, 80, 156 Barlow, Jon K., 49–50, 51, 71, 150n14 Basant Bahar (1956), 21 beat, 156 Becker, Judith, 84 been (instrument), 156 Berger, Harris, 12, 99, 106, 124 bhaav, 156 Bhagyalekshmi, S., 150n8 bhajans, 6, 157 bhakti, 112 Bharatamuni, 18 Bharatanatyam, 23 Bhatkhande, Vishnu Narayan, 28–29, 48, 150n8 biraha, 26, 91 Blackmore, John, 11 bodham, 13 body: bodily practices, 126–27; discursive separation of voice and body, 26–28, 88–90; gestural transmission and, 124–26, 131–32; melodic phrasing and, 72–74; mind-body problem, 13; pitch ascent/ descent muscle patterns, 46; planes of the body, 135; rotation/arc movement as natural body motion, 43–44; tantric philosophy and, 18–19; video analysis of, 138. See also breath; facial gestures; flesh-body; hand gestures; musicking body; paramparic body Boot Polish (1954), 86 Bourdieu, Pierre, 7–8, 117, 126–27, 133 175 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations; page numbers in bold refer to glossary entries. Index / 176 breath, 18, 43, 51, 71, 73–75, 76, 89, 94, 107, 127, 128 British colonialism, 23, 27, 28 Bryant, Rebecca, 134 calan, 35, 57, 157 cancal ragas, 58 Cardine, Eugene, 49 Carnatic music, 6, 157 catchments, 62–63, 146n5, 157 Cavicchi, Daniel, 143n3 Certeau, Michel de, 68 chanting, 49 Chasme Baddur (1981), 25–26 Chatterjee, Partha, 28 Chatterjee, Sudokshina, 130 Chordia, Parag, 56 chota khyal, 157 circularity, 45, 46, 82, 82, 95, 96. See also looping movements class: distaste for courtesanry, 23–24; gestural displays of status, 17–19; gesture associated with low-status occupations, 30; professional public performances and, 24; Sri Raga as high status raga, 60 Clayton, Martin, 7, 12, 73, 83–84 courtesanry: courtesan advocacy, 144n6 (chap. 1); female performance and, 22–24, 26, 128–29; moral reform campaign against, 23–24, 26, 88, 128, 144n4; in Sant Tukaram, 21–22, 23; voice/body separation and, 88 Csordas, Thomas, 11 Cusick, Suzanne, 10 dadra, 24 Dagar, Bahauddin, 59 Dagar, Rahim Fahim-ud-Din, ix, 59–61, 101, 103–6, 129, 146n4, 149n7 Dagar, Said-ud-din, 123 Dagar, Z. M., 101 dance: anti-nautch campaign, 23; performing body in, 11; separation of song and dance, 25; singing while dancing, 24–25, 144n3, 144n5; in thumri performance, 24 Darekar, Mohan, 102, 114, 119, 122–23, 125 Das, Chitresh, 144n5 Dbangs Yig (Tibetan chant notation), 49 Delhi, 4, 125 Deodhar, B. R., 31–32, 60–61, 116 Deole, Sudhakar, 42, 43 depth, 73, 100–101, 101 Deshpande, Vamanrao H., 30, 127–28 devadasis, 23–24, 157 Devi, Girija, 63–64, 64, 79, 146n6, 147n7 DeWitt, Mark, 11 Dhanammal, Vina, 25 Dhar, Sheila, 35, 45, 56, 80 dhrupad, 2, 25, 91, 100–101, 128, 146n4, 157 dimagh, 13, 157 dosha, 16, 157 drut khyal, 5, 157 Dublay, Sameer, 2, 92–94, 98, 98, 111, 118, 120, 125–26 Eitan, Z., 47 embodiment (as paradigmatic focus), 11 ethics: bodily hexis, 117, 133; dignity, 127; ethical affect, 11, 15, 58, 126–27; humility, 129; legendary ethical powers, 21, 133; moral reform, 22–32; openness, 130; paramparic body and, 126–27; restraint, 128; steady flow, 85, 128; stillness, 22–26, 85, 128–29; teaching lineages and, 11, 17, 109, 110, 113, 133–34; wrestling and, 127 ethnography of bodily practices, 11 facial gestures: chin motion, 43; closed eyes, 3, 22, 35, 144n2; facial grip, 109; lineagebased dialects of, 108; in lists of singers’ faults, 19...