Uluslararası Toplumsal Bilimler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Mevhibe Fidan Doğan, H. Alper Maral

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Gharānā,India,Traditional Music,Improvisation,Education

Özet: Gharānā is a concept pointing to the main paths and institutions of Indian music traditions bridging generations and identities not only through transferring musical information and tasks, but also the supporting/embracing moral, wisdom and ethics, as well. An untranslatable term, for sure, due to its capacity reflecting much more than an école, plain school of music, but also some kinship, identity, and a chain of cultural, even pseudo-religious, belonging. While “extra-musical” idioms such as philosophic, ethic, social, … qualities do surround, establish and form the music, reflected intensely by the meta-concept Gharānā, thus is studied painstakingly and taken as a valuable, reputable institution—a reference, and even a model to be considered—also by other musical traditions. This short study tries to sum up the main qualities, specifications and characteristics of the given concept while giving first a brief historical and etymological frame, then reflecting the processes of respective change and, consequently question the capacity of serving as a model for other musical cultures.

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