Event 70: Dr. Kota Shivaram Karanth, interview - Saligram: interview transcript
- Description:
- Transcript of an interview of Kota Shivaram Karanth, an Indian polymath, a novelist and playwright in the Kannada language. The author of 417 books, he was decorated with the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honor conferred in India. He was also an artist of the Yakshagana (Yakṣagāna) theater form, and could sing, dance and play various musical instruments. This interview is Event 70 of the Arnold Adriaan Bake Restudy Project 1984. During this interview, Karanth discusses Yakshagana, describes the meetings that he had in India with Bake, listens to pieces of music recorded by Bake in 1938 as part of his fieldwork in India, and discusses the music with ethnomusicologists Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy. These exchanges lead to broader discussions about the music, dance and theater traditions in South India. Leela Alva Karanth, wife of Kota Shivaram Karanth, participates in the interview.
- Date:
- April 19-20, 1984
- Resource Type:
- text
- Collection:
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Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts