Abstract

Indian classical music from its inception to the present has gone through various phases of transformations and transitions. In the process it has embraced and rejected many features with maintaining an absolute balance with the old age tradition. In the world of globalization with the course of economic flexibility and advancement of technology, society underwent through a visible phases of change. Incorporation of western values, ideas, technologies and institutions changed the core values of culture introducing an era of commoditization of almost every aspects of human life so the music. Market became a vital mechanism through which the quality of music is judged. The paper ‘Indian Classical music in the globalized world’ aims at understanding ‘globalization’ in the context of Indian classical music. It deals with exploring and analyzing the phenomenal changes incorporated in Indian classical music because of the new ethics and values of globalization. The work is an effort to critically explain various components of present Indian Classical Music in the globalized generation.