Rhythm and Beyond: Five Feisty Women of Indian Classical Music

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Rhythm and Beyond is well-researched book on 5 women who breached the man’s world in Indian Classical Music during an era when women who practised music were considered ‘fallen women. But these women in their own right, created a world beyond the male dominance, taking Indian Classical Music to a new high. The musicians whose life and artistic forms are covered in this book include Begum Akhtar, Angurbala Devi, Indubala Devi, Gauhar Jaan and Annapurna Devi. Most of these women had quite a difficult personal life, but when it came to music, they sang and created some of the best chapters of a musical journey. For them Music was like God and they were revered by the society back then and even now as stalwarts who scripted a new era in Indian Classical Music.