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Perspectives on performance practice: Hindustani music in nineteenth and twentieth century Bombay (Mumbai)

Notions of purity and authenticity become contentious issues in a tradition that boasts a history dating back thousands of years. Hindustani music—predominantly an oral tradition—has time and again witnessed debates on these issues. Today’s students and performers have to grapple with questions pertaining to the antiquity of this tradition, its adaptability to changing times, and the factors that influence protagonists to make the decisions that pave the road for the future. Indeed, it is largely by way of finding answers to these questions that performers of successive generations determine what roles they will play in the musical milieu.