[Reader-list] IPTA - Emerging Aspects 2

[mahmood farooqui]

What you have to say of IPTA's music and lyrics of the
40s and 50s is borne out by Habib Tanvir, the theatre
director. He was in Bombay in the late 40s and early
50s and he says that what he imbibed of the music and
songs there has had an indelible impact on his
theatre. As you know songs and dances play an
extremely important role in Tanvir's theatre. Even
where he has handled very modern plays like Jis Lahore
Nahin Dekhya, he has incorporated suitable music to
enhance its appeal and has manifestly, succeeded
brilliantly. 

He told me and has also repeatedly stated elsewhere
that people like Dina Pathak proved a great influence
on him in this way of approaching music. In addition
to the fact that the forum provided a creative melange
of several different traditions of music. This was
probably also the only independent site for these
diverse traditions to come together in the service of
a popular music of protest.

Cheers,
M

--- Sumangala Damodaran <sumangaladamodaran at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 
> IPTA in the Early Years– Emerging Aspects 2.
> 
> One extremely interesting aspect of the early years
> of the IPTA is the range of personalities that were
> associated with it and the nature of their
> contribution. Ranging from classical musicians such
> as Ravi Shankar and Jyotirindra Moitra to trained
> dancers such as Shanti Bardhan, Narendra Sharma, and
> Appunni to young singers and dancers who came from
> within the left movement such as Preeti Banerjee,
> Reba Raychaudhuri, Benoy Roy, Rekha Jain and Dina
> Pathak to working class singers such as Amar Sheikh
> and Dashrath Lal, a wide gamut of artistes
> participated in the creation of artistic productions
> which included theatre, dance and music. All these
> artistes lived in extremely difficult conditions in
> a commune in Bombay and devoted themselves, for
> differing periods of time, to the creation of an
> alternative aesthetic culture. The sheer range of
> their experiences and training gave rise to the
> range of styles mentioned earlier. A number of
> interesting debates relating to form and content and
>  the meaning of cultural intervention in the
> building of the left movement took place in the
> period. While I am attempting to document this, I am
> also trying to unravel the content of the
> alternative aesthetic culture that was being
> attempted.
> 
> 
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