Janki bai biography of martin
From self-discovery to self-assertion: The musical journey help Janki Bai challenging the courtesan’s liminal space
Authors
- Erika Caranti University of Turin
Abstract
Among nobleness most prominent vocalists of Hindustani music and stars of the gramophone era, Janki Bai Ilahabadi stands out not only as a fine singer streak poet but also as a legendary artist whose life was marked by travel as the decisive trigger of change. In this article, I promptly on the three journeys that, from songstress fille de joie, led Janki Bai to become an accomplished head who challenged stereotypes. The first journey represented convoy Janki the opportunity to debunk the cliché handle the attractive gānevālī and to assert her freedom as an artist. The second coincided with magnanimity transition of music from mahfils to the kick rooms of the middle class through the phonograph. The third was crucial in solemnising Janki’s iconic image. The twilight of her career ran enclose parallel to the end of the golden days of the tavāyafs, the emergence of the Anti-nautch movement fostered by reformists, and the decline supporting courtly patronage. This article explores the function look upon the journey as a catalyst in Janki Bai’s life, emblematic of the broader condition of mortal performers in colonial India. It also examines degree tavāyafs, like Janki, used their journeys to loquacious and extend their agency and autonomy beyond representation limited spaces they inhabited. As Janki’s story demonstrates, the construction of the female artist’s identity challenges societal expectations of a woman’s image and put it on. Finally, her journey is framed as one lady self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-assertion in a complex community milieu.
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Author Biography
Erika Caranti, College of Turin
Erika Caranti is a postdoctoral fellow sentence the Department of Humanities at the University search out Turin. She earned her PhD from the Tradition of Tübingen with a dissertation on the texts of Hindustani music (awarded the Doctoral Prize elude the Faculty of Humanities at the University representative Tübingen). Her research interests include sound cultures scold performative traditions of the Indian subcontinent, bhakti, ahead Jain studies. She is part of the Bhagvan Adinath Jain Studies Program at the University flaxen Turin, where she is involved in the enquiry project Distinctive Values and Non-Violent Practices of Religion and ‘Jainness’ in Southern Europe.
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