The North Indian Tabla Drum as Saivite Hindu Religious Path
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SummaryThe traditions of Hindustani (North Indian) tabla drumming gather the various strands of culture that exist in India into a complex social tapestry. In order to understand the cultural phenomenon of tabla music, it must be heard within the context of an Indian heritage originating from a wide spectrum of influences. The tabla’s syncretic patchwork brings together elements of Islamic, Karnatic, and Hindu musico-religious culture; from Sufi influences in musical pedagogy, to South Indian bhakti devotional culture, to the tantric worship of Siva in Kashmir, the lineages of tabla music in North India exist as a living amalgamation of the many divergent cultural forces at work in India. As the author of The Literatures of India observes, “Religion in India is so interwoven with every other facet of life...that it becomes indistinguishable” from other cultural institutions. Existing in such a context, the practice of music in India is often construed as a religious: the musician becomes the yogi.
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- Music can exist simply for entertainment, or as a means to transcend the ordinary human life.
- The mythological framework given by several Indian traditions prepares the context in which to understand music as religion.
- In the Nada-Brahman cosmology introduced by the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali, the practice of yoga is the practice of reuniting the individual self with the base of reality that expresses itself in sound.
- This congruence between cosmogenic and musical creation is developed by the
- The practice of refining musical ability is a metaphor for and a correlate of religious practice.
- The tradition of the Vedas introduced the concept of hearing as revelation (sruti);
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