Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre: Thumri Lyrics

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Indian classical music has long been attractive to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century.

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List of plates	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on transliteration and references	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
'I get no peace': the female voice in thumri	p. 21
Pining and pranking: the themes of thumri	p. 36
Courtesans and patrons: the context of thumri	p. 51
'My little bed is empty': the language of thumri	p. 64
Rhyme and metre: the form of thumri	p. 82
Genre, authenticity and tradition	p. 98
Conclusion	p. 121
Main corpus	p. 128
Glossary	p. 206
Notes	p. 210
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 230
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Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre: Thumri Lyrics

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