Keshav Desiraju on Indian Classical Music and the Legacy of M. S. Subbulakshmi
Ideas of India
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Emme Subelami - A Woman's Journey
The most interesting thing about m s is she comes from madre and she gets to madras at a relatively young age. She moved from a system where there was a particular devadasi tradition. And emme subelami traded that tradition for the protection of sarashevam, who was a married man but then widowed. A women we've been talking about ruqin teve could afford to flout convention. Baristersmithy could not. Sovilse managed to reject one set of conventions and exchange them for another.
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