"Revealing previously unknown historical treasures, this carefully researched study importantly expands our knowledge of Hindustani music and its various but intersecting pasts. Every serious student will learn much from this quite new story."–Daniel M. Neuman, Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
"Revealing previously unknown historical treasures, this carefully researched study importantly expands our knowledge of Hindustani music and its various but intersecting pasts. Every serious student will learn much from this quite new story."–Daniel M. Neuman, Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
"Lineage of Loss is an important scholarly statement that challenges the generally accepted interpretation of the historical trajectory of artistic production in North India. In this beautifully crafted text Max Katz illuminates a relatively unknown, yet tremendously important, lineage of knowledge and experience to form an alternative history of modernity in Hindustani music culture."–James Kippen, professor of ethnomusicology, University of Toronto