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dc.contributor.authorMani, Charulatha
dc.contributor.editorBallico, Christina
dc.contributor.editorWatson, Allan
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-16T03:36:14Z
dc.date.available2020-06-16T03:36:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-35872-3
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-35872-3_6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/394664
dc.description.abstractThe chapter offers a critical appraisal of the current musical context in the South Asian city of Chennai, India. Chennai’s uniquely traditional structures and circumstances are presented from the panoramic insider perspective of a researcher who was a Chennai-based successful performer for over two decades and is currently positioned as an insider-outsider, a globally active artist/scholar in a Western country. In examining the organisational structures that underpin the city’s identity as a music city, this discussion juxtaposes these structures against the dominant discourse around Music Cities, a burgeoning field of scholarship in the West. Drawing on literature, policy, interviews of Chennai-based artists, art critics and art-sector entrepreneurs, and personal experience and reflections, this chapter follows a discursive path as it unfolds over a string of related themes, from funding and tourism to music education and heritage. In conclusion, the chapter identifies areas for Chennai growth as a Music City by drawing on music cities scholarship. It also identifies and acknowledges the unique time-tested mechanisms that drive Chennai’s music city profile forward and offers few of these as models that could be integrated into current music city policies of the West as a contribution from an ancient culture of South Asia.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleMusic Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept
dc.relation.ispartofchapter6
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom103
dc.relation.ispartofpageto125
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMusic performance
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMusicology and ethnomusicology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAsian cultural studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode360304
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode360306
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470202
dc.titleChennai: Culture at the Cusp of Change
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMani, C, Chennai: Culture at the Cusp of Change, Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept, 2020, pp. 103-125
dc.date.updated2020-06-16T00:55:04Z
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMani, Charulatha


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