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Dance & Music of India
Selected Books & ScoresVideos & DVDs
Compact Discs
Online Listening & Web Sites
Selected Books & Scores
Dance
| AUTHOR / TITLE | CALL NUMBER |
| Bowers, Faubion The Dance in India | 793.3 B662 |
| Dhillon, Iqbal Singh Folk dances of Panjab | GV1694.P85 D55 1998 |
| Indian Dance: The Ultimate Metaphor. | q GV1693.I48 2000 |
| Khokar, Mohan Traditions of Indian Classical Dance | q GV1693.K48 1984 |
| Krsnarav, Yu. Es. A Dictionary of Bharata Natya | GV1796.B4 K77 1990x |
| Massey, Reginald & Jamila The Dances of India: A General Survey and Dancers' Guide | GV1693.M29 1989 |
| Ragini, Devi Dances of India, with an Appendix on Indian Music | GV1693.R26 1962 |
| Venktaraman, Leela Indian Classical Dance: Tradition in Transition |
q GV1693.V465 2002 |
Music
| AUTHOR / TITLE | CALL NUMBER |
| Clayton, Martin Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre and Form in North Indian R–ag Performance | ML338.C593 2000 |
| The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, v. 5 South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent. | (r)q ML100.G16 1998 |
| Gritton, Peter Folksongs from India Includes information about the structure of Indian music and the instruments used, as well as folk songs from the southern region of India (Mysore). |
M1808 .F65 1993x |
| Massey, Reginald & Jamila The Music of India (foreword by Ravi Shankar) | ML338.M38 1996x |
| McIntosh, Solveig Hidden Faces of Ancient Indian Song |
ML3748.M28 2005 |
| Pesch, Ludwig The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music |
ML338.P423 1999 |
| Roychaudhuri, Bimalakanta Dictionary of Hindustani Classical Music |
ML102.H56 R613 2000 |
| Viswanathan, T. Music in South India: the Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond | ML338.V57 2004 |
| Wade, Bonnie C. Music in India: The Classical Traditions | ML338.W32 1979x |
| White, Emmons E. Appreciating India's Music: An Introduction, with an Emphasis on the Music of South India | ML338.W53 |
For many more titles in these subjects, please ask a music librarian.
Videos & DVDs
| TITLE | CALL NUMBER |
| Classical Indian dance. Volume one, Two Bharatanatyam dances. | Dan G - Cla |
| The
JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance. Vol. 11. South Asia I. India 1. | Dan G - J -- 11 |
| The
JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance.
Vol. 12. South Asia II. India 2. | Dan G - J -- 12 |
| Kalakshetra. | Dan G - Kal |
| Dances of India: Bharata Natyam Arangetram Dances . | (DVD) Dan I - Ind |
| Dances of India: Learning Bharata Natyam. | (DVD) Dan I - Ind |
| The Cosmic Dance of Shiva. | Mus G - Cos |
| Krishna in Spring. | Mus G - Kri |
| Painted Ballad of India. | Mus G - Pai |
| Raga. | Mus G - Rag |
| There'll Always Be Stars in the Sky: the Indian Film Music Phenomenon. | Mus G - The |
| Indian & Persian Classical Music. | (DVD) M1795.I63 2004x |
Compact Discs
Folk & Classical
| If Bal #3368 | Raga Malahari, by S. Balachander. |
| If Bal #8155 | Veena virtuoso, by S. Balachander. |
| If Bha #12337 | Raga Gujari Todi; Raga Bhairavi, by Tarun Bhattacharya. |
| If Cha #12614 | Janani, by Srikanth Chary. |
| If Cha #1711 | Rag Lalit, by Hariprasad Chaurasia. |
| If Cha #27404 | Four Dhuns, by Hariprasad Chaurasia. |
| If Chh #14034 | Folksongs & Dances from India |
| If Ind #19147 | India, from the Alan Lomax collection. |
| If Kal #28488 | Nectar, by Kala Ramnath and Vijay Ghate. |
| If Kha #1712 | Rag Miya Ki Todi; Rag Bilaskhani Todi, by Imrat Khan. |
| If Kha #8424 | Rag Bhimpalasi; Rag Tilak Kamod, by Nishat & Irshad Khan. |
| If Kha #28343 | Magic of Twilight: Indian Ragas for Sitar, Tabla and Tanpoora, by Irshad Khan. |
| If Kha #28352 | Yaadein, by Imrat Khan. |
| If Kic #12331 | Vijay Kichlu, by Vijay Kumar Kichlu. |
| If Kri #10395 | Ramnad Krishnan, Vidwan: Music of South India: Songs of the Carnatic Tradition, by Ramnad Krishnan. |
| If Lal #29632 | Raga Darbari Kanhada; Raga Desh, by Lalith Rao. |
| If Mai #10511 | Tabla Tarang: Melody on Drums, by Kamalesh Maitra. |
| If Raj #28489 | Violin Dynasty, by N. Rajam and Sangeeta Shankar. |
| If Rel #30013 | Religious Chants from India: Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu. |
| If Sab #27495 | Master Drummer of India, by Ghulam Sarwar Sabri. |
| If Sas #7789 | Inde du Sud: L'art de la Vīna, by Emani Sankara Sastry. |
| If Sha #2922 | Pancha Nadai Pallavi, by Shankar. |
| If Sha #15511 | Sound of the Sitar, by Ravi Shankar. |
| If Sha #16477 | Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000, by Ravi Shankar. |
| If Sha #19085 | Anoushka Shankar Live at Carnegie Hall, by Anoushka Shankar. |
| If Sha #22121 | Chants of India, by Ravi Shankar. |
| If Sha #23517 | Ravi Shankar, Rough Guide. |
| If Sha #25794 | Rise, by Anoushka Shankar. |
| If Sha #29443 | Three Ragas, by Ravi Shankar. |
| If Sri #1252 | Mandolin Ecstasy, by U. Srinivas. |
| If Sub #27493 | Rag Hemavati, by L. Subramaniam. |
| If Sub #30020 | Sangeet Sangam, by L. Subramaniam. |
| If Wom #16625 | Women's Songs from India. |
Film Music ("Bollywood")
| Mo Bes #24398 | Best of Bollywood. |
| Mo Bho #24544 | Asha Bhosle (Rough Guide), by Asha Bhosle. |
| Mo Bho #24545 | The Best of Asha Bhosle: The Golden Voice of Bollywood, by Asha Bhosle. |
| If Bho #26260 | Love Supreme, by Asha Bhosle. |
| Mo Bol #25204 | Bollywood (Rough Guide). |
| Mo Bur #24763 | You've Stolen My Heart: Songs From R. D. Burman's Bollywood, by Rahul Dev Burman, performed by Kronos Quartet with Asha Bhosle and Zakir Hussain. |
| Mo Ind #26004 | Indiavision: Hindi films songs and instrumentals [1966-1984] . |
| If Mah #30306 | Introducing Shankar Mahadevan: The Voice of India Today, by Shankar Mahadevan. |
| Mo Man #24399 | Lata Mangeshkar (Rough Guide), by Lata Mangeshkar. |
| Mo Man #30018 | The Legend, by Lata Mangeshkar. |
| Mo Rou #29640 | Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold. |
Bhangra
| If Bha #16623 |
Bhangra (Rough Guide). |
| If Bha #27531 |
Bhangra Beatz: A Naxos World Collection. |
| If Bol #29662 |
Bollywood Dance (Note: Bhangra). |
| If Rou #29467 |
Rough Guide to Bhangra Dance. |
| Po Bha #10804 |
What is Bhangra? |
Online Listening
You can find over 250 tracks of music from India, including many field recordings, in the Smithsonian Global Sound database.
The Naxos Music Library also has over 20 albums of music from India in its World/Folk genre.
Both databases are available in the library or remotely for free with a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh card.
Web Sites
Art India Net - an exclusive site on Indian
performing and allied arts
http://www.artindia.net/
SPICMACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth)
- a local chapter of SPICMACAY based at Carnegie Mellon University that holds free concerts of Indian Classical music
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/macay/
Srishti Dances of India - a Pittsburgh based dance company
http://www.srishtidances.org/
