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Rethinking the Viruttam in Karnatak music: music for poetry
Citation
Mani, C, Rethinking the Viruttam in Karnatak music: music for poetry, Asian Music: Journal of the Society for Asian Music, 53, (2) pp. 5-32. ISSN 0044-9202 (2022) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1353/amu.2022.0011
Abstract
The Viruttam is a vocal improvisatory form in Karnatak music of South India. It explores verses of poetry using raga as the melodic medium and the natural poetic meter as its rhythmic framework. In this article, I draw on literature, primarily from native practitioner-scholars, and on my own experiences as an established Karnatak performer to reimagine Viruttam from a text-centric perspective. Adopting textual, raga, and practice-based analyses as my methods I reshape Andal’s Thiruppavai as Viruttams in a suite of Karnatak ragas. The study emphasizes the need for a textually responsive Viruttam style and calls for decolonizing global scholarship in Karnatak music by ensuring greater representation of native practitioner-scholar perspectives.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | music, Karnatik, Viruttam, Thiruppavai |
| Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Research Group: | Music |
| Research Field: | Musicology and ethnomusicology |
| Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
| Objective Group: | Arts |
| Objective Field: | Music |
| UTAS Author: | Mani, C (Dr Charulatha Mani) |
| ID Code: | 153868 |
| Year Published: | 2022 |
| Deposited By: | Music |
| Deposited On: | 2022-10-12 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-11-03 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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