Hrushita Davey PA101614 Prof. Pratyush Shankar History and Theory of Urban Design 10 April 2015 The Project of Modernity in India Background “I wanted to point out the significance of tradition in architecture and in fact for all creative works. During the 1980’s modernity was frequently accused of abandoning history and tradition. This argument was central to the post modernist ideology…….. History and tradition are complex phenomena and they are strongly present in the dialectical process of
Rhythm Concept of Rhythm in Indian Music Indian and African Music Music has always played an essential role in the human society. Garfias (2004) notes that if we study the societies and cultures around the world and look at all the historical societies of the past, it can be deduced with a high degree of certainty that music has always played an important role in human society. Music has always played an important role in both Indian and African societies. According to Mbaegbu (2015), “African music
It is often said that history is written by the victor, and in the race to industrialization of the past two centuries, Western Europe and the United States have emerged as the victors. This enabled them to write a history in which their rise to power was preordained and inevitable and in which Eastern cultures are viewed as backward and intolerant. These Eurocentric histories have so fully permeated the global psyche that the stereotypes they have perpetuated inform our cultural interactions to