Woodfield, Ian - Music of the Raj

Music of the Raj provides a colourful portrait of daily musical life in the late eighteenth century. Based on unpublished Anglo-Indian correspondence, Woodfield illustrates in fascinating detail the musical activities of a group of English employees of the East India Company, in Calcutta and London, at that time.

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CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
1 Supplying the market
2 Professional musicians in India
3 The woman amateur
4 The male dilettante
5 The encounter with Indian music
6 The return to England
Appendices
Sources
Bibliography
Index