In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India.
About the Author: MAX Katz is associate professor of Music at the College of William and Mary..
An interdisciplinary, postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music\'s encounter with modernity.
In doing so he illuminates a hidden history of ideological and social struggle in North Indian Music culture, intervenes in ongoing debates over the anti-Muslim agenda of Hindustani music\'s reform movement, and reanimates a lost vision in which Muslim scholar-artists defined the Music of the nation.
Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of the Lucknow ghar n, tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory.
Today this musical lineage, or ghar n, lives on in the Music and memories of only a small handful of descendants and players of the family instrument, the sarod.
In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India
