The Indian Drum of the King-God and the Pakhāvaj of Nathdwara

ISBN-13: 9780367370237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Paolo Pacciolla

Opis

The book studies the evolution of the ancient drum mṛdaṅga into the pakhāvaj crossing more than two thousand years of history.

O autorze

Paolo Pacciolla is Tagore Fellow affiliated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts of New Delhi, where he is conducting research on ritual drumming in Kerala. His main ethnographic focus is on music in India, and his research interests include Ethnomusicology, Organology, Iconography of Music, Indology and Religious Studies.