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Description
This book examines perceptions and representations of Indian music in the West over a period of two hundred years, ranging from orientalist studies of Indian history and culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the adoption of elements from Indian music in Western popular culture... read more
First Sentence
In 1786 two musicians, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke, worked together in the North Indian city of Benares, testing the pitches of a bin against those of a harpsichord.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Gerry Farrell (Author)
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