Music, time and place: Essays in comparative musicology

Contents 1. Introduction I Time and rhythm 2. Metre and tal in North Indian music 3. Two gat forms for the sitar: a case study in the rhythmic analysis of North Indian music 4. Culture, cognition and additive rhythm: a comparative case study 5. Free rhythm: ethnomusicology and the study of music without metre 6. Experiencing Indian music 7. In time with the music: the significance of entrainment for music research II The history of comparative musicology 8. Ethnographic wax cylinders at the British Library National Sound Archive 9. A. H. Fox Strangways and the Music of Hindostan: Revisiting historical field recordings III Beyond the East-West divide 10. Rock to raga: the many lives of the Indian guitar 11. 'You can't fuse yourself': Contemporary British-Asian music and the musical expression of identity 12. From difference to fusion: constructions of Indian and Western music 13. Sound and symbol? The Indian in music 14. Towards a theory of musical meaning (in India and elsewhere) 15. Comparing music, comparing musicology