Indian Music and the West

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Note on Transliteration
• Introduction
• 1 `Wild by pleasing when understood.' Europeans and Indian music in the late eighteenth century
• 2 `In short, almost everything Oriental appears to better advantage in European garb.' Indian music, notation, and nationalism in the nineteenth century
• 3 `My naive heart...' Indian music in Western popular song
• 4 `This talking machine is the marvel of the twentieth century.' The gramophone comes to India
• 5 `Pomegranates with fingerboards added.' Three journeys to the West
• 6 `We'll be able to get plastic sitars in our cornflakes soon.' Indian music in popular music and jazz
• 7 `Listen to the story of an Asian man.' World Music and South Asian music in the West
• Appendix : Selected discography for chapters 6 and 7
• List of Sources and Bibliography
• Index