Another aim of the project was to work with local community-based professional musicians who wished to reach out to audiences beyond the diasporic scene. As a song tradition widely sung in worship and in classical concerts yet little known outside the Tamil Hindu community, the project was intended to shed light on a rich cultural practice in London, to exchange musical knowledge and to create socio-musical connections between the university and a local music scene. The collaboration used the Tamil devotional song repertoire as a point of musical departure. In this article, I explore the “Songs of the Saints: Tamil Traditions and New Creativities” collaborative music project that took place in 2016 between London-based Carnatic, or South Indian classical, musicians, two composers specialising in Indian and European music, and music students at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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