Master Musicians Of India ─ Hereditary Indian Musicians Speak

Qureshi (Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Folkways Alive Project, U. of Alberta) presents interviews with sarangi players from five cities in India and Pakistan: Delhi, Bombay, Lucknow, Benares, and Karachi. She aims for the voices of these Hindustani art musicians to be heard and unchanged by scholarly interpretation. Among the topics discussed are how the tradition is passed down through generations, playing techniques, and the history of transmission from the 1960s to the 1990s. She also provides background on the social context, as well as their professional community. The book blends biography, interviews, and discipular ethnography. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Regula Quershi is Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta, Canada. She edited Music and Marx, a monograph published by Routledge in 2002. Besides her academic writing, Quershi is also a noted performer of Indian music and Islamic chant.