Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Two decades and the fourth book


Sumana Ramanan, the music columnist for the Mumbai Mirror thought music critics were a dying breed, and I was something of an anomaly in the business-dominated city of Bombay. I am not sure it was a dinosaur she was talking to. But, I am grateful that she found my two decades in musicology, and the release of my fourth book news-worthy. 














Wednesday, September 23, 2015

"Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change"



When my work on Khayal vocalism was published (2009), it did not receive the promotional support it probably deserved.

In the hope that work like mine is not subject to accelerated obsolescence, I am submitting it again for the consideration of those who may have missed it earlier.

Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change (Slide Presentation)

(c) Deepak S Raja 2015

Friday, September 18, 2015

Deepak Raja: Two Decades in Musicology


It was around this time in 1995 that Lyle Wachovsky of India Archive Music Ltd., New York, commissioned me to write commentaries on the CDs he was producing of Hindustani music. Till then, I was a musician (among other things). Since then, I have been a musicologist (among other things).

A brief flashback on my two decades in musicology.

Deepak Raja: Two Decades in Musicology


(c) Deepak S. Raja 2015