Vikram Sampath sheds light on the role and impact of The Gramophone Company's early recording expeditions on Indian classical music by examining the phenomenon through a socio-cultural, historical and musical lens.
Vikram Sampath sheds light on the role and impact of The Gramophone Company's early recording expeditions on Indian classical music by examining the phenomenon through a socio-cultural, historical and musical lens.
The book features the indefatigable stories of the women and their experiences in adapting to recording technology.
Vikram Sampath is a Bangalore-based historian who has authored six acclaimed books on Indian history and classical music. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK), recipient of several awards such as the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar for English literature and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Research in Music. He has founded India's first online digital sound archive for vintage gramophone recordings called Archive of Indian Music.
1 The Exotic East
2 The Mechanised West
3 When the Twain Meet
4 The Protagonists
5 The Abolition and Thereafter
6 Analysing the Recordings
7 Conclusion