Bai sundarabai biography of michaels
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Honorary Members
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Event Description
The session would be an interspersed panel discussion on women in music along with actual singing as also playing of vintage gramophone records from the book. This event is based on the book “Women of the Records” authored by Vikram Sampath and has music mastered by Michael Graves. The Producers are Ricky Kej and Vikram Sampath. The book will be released by Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.
The advent of the gramophone to India in 1902 marked a path-breaking milestone in the annals of Indian classical music. The Gramophone Company in London set its recording experts out on ‘expeditions’ across the world to record voices from different cultures and backgrounds. Interestingly in these early decades of recording, all over India it was women who embraced the challenge and went ahead and recorded, overcoming a lot of social and aesthetic taboos that plagued this nascent technology. These women largely belonged to the courtesan community of tawaifs and devadasis, in North and South India respectively. A majority of the male musicians kept away from recording. It is indeed a tribute to the grit, ingenuity, farsightedness, and creative genius of these women that they went ahead and recorded despite numerous shortcomings, thereby becoming pioneers of the music industry in the c