In 2009, Smithsonian Folkways assumed stewardship of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, a pioneering series of more than 100 field recordings from around the world. First out of the vault is ...
Once I wrote that perhaps, the ‘Kutru’ (utterance) in the ancient grammatical work Tholkappiyam could have become ‘koothu’, indicating theatre. This “atrocious statement”, as it was described, stirred ...