Musicscapes : The Multiple Emotions Of Indian Music
Shobha Deepak Singh
The Multiple Emotions of Indian Music is a visual diary of 30 years of photo documentation through the lens of the passionate photographer Shobha Deepak Singh. In this book, Shobha encapsulates a slice of history of Indian music. Through the evocative black-and-white portraits, she sketches the many moods, iconic moments, and the ‘rasa of Indian music. From the maestros of vocal music, Balasaheb Poonchwale, Kumar Gandharva, Bhimsen Joshi, Kishori Amonkar, and Shubha Mudgal to legendary instrumental musicians, Bismillah Khan, Ravi Shankar, Amjad Ali Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Vilayat Khan, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ronu Mazumdar, and Zakir Hussain, Shobha has captured all of them through her own singular visual language. She works as a chronicler of the musical zeitgeist of modern India.