About the Book: Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan
Unconscious
In Musicophilia in Mumbai Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani
classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city
moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial
metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and
interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers as well as
her own personal experiences as a student of Hindustani classical music,
Niranjana shows how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a
culture of collective listening that brought together people of diverse social
and linguistic backgrounds. This culture