Musically Speaking: The Chords of Mughal India | Katherine Schofield with Vidya Shah and Rana Safvi

Musically Speaking: The Chords of Mughal India | Katherine Schofield in conversation with Vidya Shah and Rana Safvi | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024

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Historian and writer Katherine Schofield's recent book, Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India, weaves through the lives of nine musicians to provide a new history of music, musicians and their audiences during the period in which North Indian classical music coalesced in its modern form. In conversation with musician and writer Vidya Shah and historian and author Rana Safvi, Schofield discusses the many ways in which Mughal culture responded to the political, economic and social upheaval of the transition to British rule.

Katherine Schofield is a historian of Mughal India and Hindustani music based at King’s College London. Drawing on Persian, Hindi, Urdu and visual sources to tell stories about musical lives, she writes on sovereignty and selfhood, affection and desire, sympathy and loss, nature and the human, and power, worldly and strange.

Vidya Shah is a singer and musician, trained in both Carnatic music, and in the North Indian genres of Khayal and Thumri Dadra, and Ghazal. She has performed at national and international forums, including the Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, The Asia Society in New York and the Bode Museum in Berlin. A popular performer and a prolific composer, she is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Award and a Senior Fellowship from the Government of India.

Rana Safvi is deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilisational legacy. Her multifaceted contributions encompass history, literature, cultural preservation, and exploration of culinary heritage. She has authored ten books that delve into topics ranging from culture and history to the monuments of India, including Tales from the Quran and Hadith, The Delhi Trilogy: Where Stones Speak, Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi and In Search of The Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India. Her blog, ranasafvi.com, serves as a treasure trove of cultural, literary, and historical insights.

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