Professor Laura Leante's Outputs (2)

The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg (2009)
Journal Article
Leante, L. (2009). The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg. Ethnomusicology Forum, 18(2), 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411910903141874

This article brings together investigation of gesture and imagery in the study of North Indian classical music, focusing on a particular rāg—Śrī rāg—in detail. The research, based on extensive ethnography and analysis of audiovisual recordings, revea... Read More about The Lotus and the King: Imagery, Gesture and Meaning in a Hindustani Rāg.

Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK (2009)
Book Chapter
Leante, L. (2009). Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK. In B. Clausen, U. Hemetek, & E. Saether (Eds.), Music in motion : diversity and dialogue in Europe (191-207). Transcript Verlag

Bhangra is believed to have originated in Western Punjab (in today’s Pakistan) as a rural male dance performed to the rhythm of the dhol, a large double-headed barrel drum, to celebrate the spring harvest. Soon after Indian Partition in 1947 and foll... Read More about Urban Myth: bhangra and the dhol craze in the UK.