A Preliminary Examination of the Social Domain of

Hindustani music in Contemporary America

Matthew D. Cohen

1992

A hundred books could not conjure up the magic of a single evening's music by Pandit Ravi Shankar on the sitar: a hundred books attempting exactitude.
(Sharman 1970: 29)

Acknowledgements

Introduction and Methodology

Performers - introduction

Performers - training

The Indian ethos

Context of musical events

Conclusion

Glossary

Appendices

Bibliography

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