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The Study of Individual Carnatic Musicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Gordon Geekie
Gordon Geekie*
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University of Edinburgh
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Extract

In southern India, the term ‘Carnatic music’ is usually employed to refer to the ‘art’ form of devotional music. This is mostly played by and for members of the Brahman caste, by whom it is termed sam̩gīta.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 12 , 1980 , pp. 84 - 89
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Copyright © 1980 By the International Folk Music Council 

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1. The main language of Karnataka State, where I carried out fieldwork from 1974 to 1976 on a grant from the U.K. Social Sciences Research Council.Google Scholar