A language for music

Revisiting the Tamil Isai Iyakkam

Bibliographic Data

ID8961607
AuthorsLakshmi Subramanian (0000-0003-2536-7274, University of Wollongong, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume44
Issue1
Pages19-40
Publication date2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001946460604400102
OpenAlexW1980604381
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited11

This article takes a closer look at the Tamil Music Movement of the 1940s that contested the basis of the classical music tradition reconstituted by the Madras Music Academy. In espousing the cause of Tamil songs, the movement attempted to articulate a parallel conception of classicism that related to the song texts and to the singing voice, but which failed to break out of the discursive model that the Academy had set up for classical music. This article looks at the pre-history of Tamil Isai, and at how critical changes in the sociology of performance produced a new conception of classicism in both language and music

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Classicism · Linguistics · Literature · Movement (music · Music history · Musical · Popular music · Singing · Sociology · Tamil · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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