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Rethinking the Viruttam in Karnatak music: music for poetry

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posted on 2023-05-21, 14:19 authored by Charulatha Mani
The Viruttam is a vocal improvisatory form in Karnatak music of South India. It explores verses of poetry using raga as the melodic medium and the natural poetic meter as its rhythmic framework. In this article, I draw on literature, primarily from native practitioner-scholars, and on my own experiences as an established Karnatak performer to reimagine Viruttam from a text-centric perspective. Adopting textual, raga, and practice-based analyses as my methods I reshape Andal’s Thiruppavai as Viruttams in a suite of Karnatak ragas. The study emphasizes the need for a textually responsive Viruttam style and calls for decolonizing global scholarship in Karnatak music by ensuring greater representation of native practitioner-scholar perspectives.

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Publication title

Asian Music: Journal of the Society for Asian Music

Volume

53

Pagination

5-32

ISSN

0044-9202

Department/School

School of Creative Arts and Media

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright © 2022 University of Texas Press

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Music; The performing arts; Communication across languages and culture

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    musicKarnatikViruttamThiruppavai

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