Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music

摘要: Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from teachers, and the motion hand voice are always intimately connected. Though observers classical music have long commented on these gestures, Musicking Bodies is first extended study what singers actually do voices. Matthew Rahaim draws years vocal training, ethnography, close analysis to demonstrate in which gesture used alongside vocalization manifest melody as dynamic, three-dimensional shapes. The gestures that improvised improvisation embody a special kind knowledge passed down tacitly through lineages teachers who not only sound similar, but also engage kinesthetically according similar aesthetic ethical ideals. builds insights phenomenology, Western theory, cultural studies illuminate performance gesture, its implications for transmission culture, conception melody, very nature musicking body.