ABSTRACT
South India has many kinds of music, each socially organized in a different manner. A comprehensive study of this topic would have to consider a myriad of people and situations: Anglo-Indian musicians in the recording studios of the Madras film industry, tribal communities in the Nilgiri Hills, an urban Muslim neighborhood in Coimbatore, a fishing village where the vast Godavari River delta in Andhra Pradesh meets the sea, one of the many Christian churches in the west coast state of Kerala, Kuruvar gypsy musicians who migrate throughout the region, or a folk-dance group sponsored by scholars from a university in Madurai—to mention a few.
