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Download or read book Veena Dhanammal written by Lakshmi Subramanian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938), considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India, as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern, secular form of entertainment in the city space.