Tips to fully appreciate the following points, listen to a vocal rendition of ‘Sri Gananatha’ by Sreevidhya Chandramouli, specially recorded for the benefit of all learners >> practice Rūpaka tāla (3 counts) while listening to Sreevidhya Chandramouli’s singing; to get prepared follow this exercise: audio track 4 in Practice four widely used Carnatic talas >> …
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by John Stratton Hawley Review by Vinay Lal (Professor of History & Asian American Studies, UCLA) in Canadian Journal of History: A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement by John Stratton Hawley: “The idea of a ‘‘bhakti movement’’ has long been one of the largely unexamined verities that have played …
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The Music Academy Madras presents it’s HCL Concert 2021 featuring JA Jayant – FluteL Ramakrishnan – ViolinK Sai Giridhar – MridangamDr. S Karthick – Ghatam More flute music performed by his grandfather and guru, TS Sankaran, and by JA Jayant >>
