Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious
2019

by Tejaswini Niranjana

Musicophilia in Mumbai traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers.