A discussion unearthing Hindustani classical music this Sunday

This Sunday, music lovers, historians and researchers can together unravel Hindustani classical music.

Bangalore International Centre

is conducting a discussion on the film by

director Surabhi Sharma

. The 85-minute long 2017 film emerged from a research project aimed at understanding

Hindustani classical music

as part of the intangible urban history of the metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai. The project is a collaboration between Dr.

Tejaswini Niranjana

and Surabhi Sharma. Through the research phase we produced a series of interviews that are available on the online archive, Pad.ma

Discussion Returning to the First Beat -- Phir Se Samm Pe Aana on June 28(Sunday) aims to revisits the sites clustered in and around Girgaon where music was taught and performed. It seeks to understand the musical legacy of this neighbourhood, even as it reimagines the documentary mode. This film ‘listens’ to architectural structures in an attempt to reflect on the deep history of this practice. In narrativising the love of music that took shape in this neighbourhood. Phir se…is an opportunity to experience an interior, almost intimate practice of the musical form. The speakers include Surabhi Sharma, Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana and

musician Bindhumalini

.

The metropolitan transformation of Bombay in the nineteenth and twentieth century kept time with changes in the practice and pedagogy of Hindustani classical music in the city. With the decline of the princely states traditional systems of patronage began to unravel. Musicians, among others, began to gravitate to the rapidly growing colonial city of Bombay, in search of new sponsors. This led, in turn, to the formation of a distinctive audience for Hindustani sangeet in the city – one not limited to the princely courts and exclusive homes of the aristocracy. Girgaon was a part of the native town of the colonial city and was one of the key neighbourhoods where the singers, the patrons and the audiences lived.