The Tamil Padam: A Dance Music Genre of South India by Matthew Harp Allen
- Studies the Bharata Natyam dance genre padam and focuses on its patrons and composers and its formal structure, texts, and music
- Examines the rewriting of South Indian dance and the decades-long debates over the classicization and ownership of South Indian music
- The text includes 30 Tamil language songs, minutely translated and annotated together with a documentation of their performance history in the 20th century