Bonnie C. Wade is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a member of the Council of the American Musicology Society. She is the author of several monographs and articles on Indian Music. Her book on music in India is a useful treatise on Indian Music with a special emphasis on the Hindustani style of the Art. It also covers in fair detail the Karnatic tradition and a section that interestingly has alternate pages that compare western music to Indian. This book is directed to the interest of the western reader, and is detailed and copiously supported by footnotes, charts, musical examples, many plates and illustrations. It is a practical manual that tells the Western reader how to listen to Indian music and appreciate it.
Sept-Oct 1987, volume 11, No 5