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Music In India: An Overview, Anna E. Evans

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

Music is fundamentally connected to culture, providing a mirror that reflects a culture’s philosophies, religion, social standards, and history. Unfortunately, this unique relationship is lost to the typical consumer of western contemporary music. Refreshingly, the vast culture of India is intricately woven into the fabric of the rich diversity of the music that nation has produced in the past and continues to produce today. India’s music, therefore, with even the briefest understanding of its heritage, provides the listener with a panorama of India’s resplendent culture. This paper attempts to give a terse overview of those philosophies and structures found within …