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THE SECRET MASTER ARUN KASHALKAR AND A JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MUSIC SUMANA RAMANAN

THE SECRET MASTER ARUN KASHALKAR AND A JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MUSIC SUMANA RAMANAN

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About the Book                                                                                             
A  LOVE  LETTER  TO  KHAYAL,  THE  MOST  WIDESPREAD  GENRE  OF  HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC.
On  a  winter  evening  in  2016,  Sumana  Ramanan  casually  attends  a  private  Hindustani music performance in South Mumbai. The singer, a man in his early seventies, specialises in khayal, one of the Indian subcontinent's most scintillating music genres, the very name of  which  means  ‘imagination'.  Astounded  by  what  she  hears,  Ramanan  sets  off  on  a mission  to  solve  the  mystery  of  the  missing  maestro:  for,  although  a  student  of  khayal,  a regular concertgoer and a writer on music, she has never heard him before.
In  this  musical  detective  story,  Ramanan  unravels  the  secret  of  the  life,  art  and  milieu  of the  singer,  Arun  Kashalkar.  He  performs  on  the  fringes  of  the  mainstream  Hindustani music ecosystem in Mumbai, which has been the epicentre of the art form since the early twentieth century. He is one of the most accomplished and charismatic figures in a wider underground scene that has been preserving this music in its most vibrant colours.
After  joining  Kashalkar's  large  student  community,  Ramanan  grapples  with  his  intricate and  rhythm-infused  style  while  exploring  answers  to  fundamental  questions  about  the nature  of  the  mainstream  and  the  reasons  for  the  rise  of  an  underground  culture.  The Secret  Master  is  thus  also  an  excavation  of  khayal's  history  and  a  meditation  on  its aesthetics and contemporary practice.
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