Amrita Sher-Gil#Amrita
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#Amrita
Amrita Sher-Gil · 1913–1941
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Who this is
Carnatic music — South India's classical vocal tradition — with the bhakti repertoire, the songs of the saint-poets, at its heart.
“The daughter of a hereditary musicians' community that was being pushed out of music at the exact moment she rose became the most revered Indian musician of her century, the first musician ever awarded the Bharat Ratna — and gave nearly everything she earned away.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“She took a classical art that was being fenced in by pedigree and gatekeepers and gave it to an entire people — a voice so exact in pitch and so saturated in devotion that a temple hymn she recorded in 1963 still wakes South India every morning.”
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