Dear Prof. Dehejia,

In the event it may be of assistance, I’m pasting below my (perhaps a year or so out of date) biblio on music and religion in South Asia. My favorite starting point, for students, is the article by Donna Wulff. Below also are links to RISA-L bibliographies on the topic.

Best wishes, Lance

RELIGION AND MUSIC IN HINDU SOUTH ASIA

Encyclopedia

Alison, Arnold, ed. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent. Garland encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 5. New York, NY : Garland Pub., 2000.

Bohlman, Philip V. "Music: Music and Religion in India," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Lindsay Jones, pp. 6278-6287. Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2005.

Khan, Ali Akbar and Ruckert, George. The Classical Music of North India. St. Louis: East Bay Books, 1991. [R]

Shiloah, Ammon. "Islam and Music." In Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. [R]

Slawek, Stephen M. "The Classical Master-Discipline Tradition," in Nettl, Bruno, et al, eds. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: India [Reference], pp. 457-467

Slawek, Stephen M. "Popular Kirtan in Benares: Some 'Great' Aspects of a Little Tradition." Ethnomusicology, 32:2 (1988), pp. 77-92

Books and Articles

Thielemann, Selina. Sounds of the Sacred : Religious Music in India. 1st ed. New Delhi, A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. 1998. ISBN: 8170249902 $33.30

Allen, Matthew. 1998. "Tales Tunes Tell: Deepening the Dialogue Between 'Classical' and 'non-Classical' in the Music of India." In Yearbook for Traditional Music 30:22-52.

Beck, Guy L. 1993. Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.

Beck, Guy L., guest ed. 1996. Journal of Vaishnava Studies 4(2) (Spring).[devoted entirely to music]

Beck, Guy L. 2006. Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier Univ. Press.

Capwell, Charles. 2011. Sailing on the Sea of Love: The Music of the Bauls of Bengal. London: Seagull Books.

Irwin, Joyce, ed. 1983. Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice. Journal of the American Academy of Religion studies v. 50, no. 1. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press. [See Carter, Lawrence, Wulff]

Jackson, William J. 1991. Tyagaraja: Life and Lyrics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Khan, Ali Akbar and Ruckert, George. 1991. The Classical Music of North India. St. Louis: East Bay Books.

Pesch, Ludwig. 1999. The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Music. Oxford Univ. Press.

Rowell, Lewis. 1992. Music and Musical Thought in Early India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ruckert, George. 2003. Music in North India: Experiencing Music,

Expressing Culture. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Schultz, Anna. 2002. "Hindu Nationalism, Music, and Embodiment in Marathi Rashtriya Kirtan." Ethnomusicology 46(2):307-322.

Shankar, Ravi. 1999. Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. Ed. George Harrison. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers.

Sullivan, Lawrence E. 1997. Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions.

Terada, Yoshitaka. 2000. "T. N. Rajarattinam Pillai and Caste Rivalry in South Indian Classical Music." Ethnomusicology 44(3):460-490.

Thielemann, Selina. 1998. Sounds of the Sacred: Religious Music in

India. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation.

________. 1998. Rasalila: a Musical Study of Religious Drama in Vraja. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation.

Viswanathan, T., and Matthew Allen. 2003. Music in South India: The

Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond. Oxford Univ. Press.

Wulff, Donna. 1983. "On Practicing Religiously: Music as Sacred in India." In Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice, ed. Joyce Irwin, 149-172. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press.