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Music of India

Owing to India's vastness and diversity, Indian music encompasses numerous genres in multiple varieties and forms which include classical music, folk, rock, and pop. It has a history spanning several millennia and developed over several geo-locations spanning the sub-continent. Music in India began as an integral part of socio-religious life.

"Indian music" redirects here. For other uses, see Indian music (disambiguation).

Alim and Hudhud Oral traditions of Ifugao

Kudyapi

Organisations promoting Indian music

Sangeet Natak Akademi is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India in 1952, which bestows Sangeet Natak Akademi Award as the highest official Indian government's recognition given to practicing artists,[142] It has established several institutions including the Manipur Dance Academy in Imphal,[143] Ravindra Rangshala Centers,[144] Sattriya Centre, Kathak Kendra (National Institute of Kathak Dance) at New Delhi, Centre for Kutiyattam at Thiruvananthapuram, Chhau Centre at Baripada in Jamshedpur, Banaras Music Akademi, Varanasi, and the Northeast Centre.

Day; Joshi, O. P. (1982). "The changing social structure of music in India". International Social Science Journal. 34 (94): 625.

Day, Charles Russell (1891). . Adam Charles Black, London.

The Music and Musical instruments of Southern India and the Deccan

Clements, Sir Ernest (1913). . Longmans, Green & Co., London.

Introduction to the Study of Indian Music

Strangways, A.H. Fox (1914). . Oxford at The Clarendon Press, London.

The Music of Hindostan

Strangways, A.H. Fox (1914). . Oxford at The Clarendon Press, London.

The Music of Hindostan

Popley, Herbert Arthur (1921). The Music of India. Association Press, Calcutta.

Killius, Rolf. Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerala. New Delhi: B.R. Rhythms, 2006.

Moutal, Patrick (2012). Hindustāni Gata-s Compilation: Instrumental themes in north Indian classical music. Rouen: Patrick Moutal Publisher.  978-2-9541244-1-4.

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Moutal, Patrick (1991). A Comparative Study of Selected Hindustāni Rāga-s. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd.  978-81-215-0526-0.

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Moutal, Patrick (1991). Hindustāni Rāga-s Index. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd.

Manuel, Peter. Thumri in Historical and Stylistic Perspectives. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989.

Manuel, Peter (May 1993). . University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-50401-8.

Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India. University of Chicago Press, 1993

Wade, Bonnie C. (1987). Music in India: the Classical Traditions. New Dehi, India: Manohar, 1987, t.p. 1994. xix, [1], 252 p., amply ill., including with examples in musical notation.  81-85054-25-8

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Maycock, Robert and Hunt, Ken. "How to Listen - a Routemap of India". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp. 63–69. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books.  1-85828-636-0

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Hunt, Ken. "Ragas and Riches". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp. 70–78. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books.  1-85828-636-0.

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"Hindu music." (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.

(1977), A History of Indian Literature: Musicological Literature, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN 978-3447018319, OCLC 299648131

Emmie te Nijenhuis

Ancient Indian Theory and Practice of Music (translated by M. Ghosh)

Natya Sastra

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (45 minutes): The Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (45 minutes): A mahfil Sufi gathering in Karachi.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (60 minutes): The Misra brothers perform Vedic chant.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (60 minutes): Rikhi Ram and sons, Nizami brothers.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (60 minutes): Rajasthan, Bombay and Trilok Gurtu.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (45 minutes): Gujarat - Praful Dave.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (45 minutes): Courtesan songs and music of the Bauls.

Accessed 25 November 2010.

BBC Radio 3 Audio (60 minutes): Music from the Golden Temple of Amritsar.

(in English and French)

Hindustani Rag Sangeet Online – A rare collection of more than 800 audio and video archives from 1902