Editing Carnatic music (section)

=== Carnatic music outside of South India ===
From the 18th century, South Indian immigrant communities abroad increased, especially in [[Southeast Asia]] and [[Ceylon|Sri Lanka]]. Communities such as the [[Nattukottai Chettiar]]s participate in the extension of the Carnatic cultural scene abroad, thanks to their rich patronage activity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Aravinthon |first=Dr (Mrs) Suhanya |date=2021-06-01 |title=Roots of Carnatic Music in Sri Lanka - Artistic interrelations between Sri Lanka and South India A |url=https://zenodo.org/record/6550640 |journal=Smrti - Department of Indian Music: Annual Journal |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=90–95 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.6550640}}</ref> Carnatic music artists therefore perform abroad among South Indian communities who request their coming, in order to enliven local community life. For a long time in Sri Lanka, Carnatic music was associated with Indian immigrants, and was often derogatorily referred to as "''thosai kade'' music" ("music from the [[Dosa (food)|dosa]] shop"), in reference to the South Indians-owned restaurants and eateries that typically played this kind of music.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Daniel |first=E. Valentine |title=Charred lullabies: chapters in an anthropography of violence |date=1996 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-0-691-02774-6 |series=Princeton studies in culture / power / history |location=Princeton, NJ |pages=157, 145 |oclc=34669394}}</ref>

From the 20th century, Carnatic music gained significant popularity among certain social strata of the [[Demographics of Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan population]], who were then heavily influenced by a prominent cultural movement known as the Hindu revival.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=O’Shea |first1=Janet |title=Choreographies of 21st century wars |last2=Morris |first2=Gay |last3=Giersdorf |first3=Jens Richard |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-19-020166-1 |pages=119 |language=en |chapter=From Temple to Battlefield: Bharata Natyam in the Sri Lankan Civil War |oclc=915135656}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Reed |first=Susan A. |title=Dance and the nation: performance, ritual, and politics in Sri Lanka |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-299-23164-4 |pages=131–132 |language=en |chapter=Dance, Ethnicity and the State |oclc=317288154}}</ref> Carnatic music was thus appropriated and highly promoted during the 1920s and 1930s as a cultural and identity marker of the [[Colombo]] and [[Jaffna]] bourgeoisies,<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Jeyaratnam Wilson |first=Alfred |title=Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism: its origins and development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |publisher=[[University of British Columbia Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=0-7748-0759-8 |pages=36 |language=en |chapter=Language, Poetry; Culture and Tamil Nationalism |oclc=41467484}}</ref> and by extension of the [[Sri Lankan Tamils]]. The place given to Carnatic music in the construction of a modern Sri Lankan Tamil identity has reached significant proportions, such as its rise in the curricula of most Jaffna colleges, where it gradually replaced from the mid-1930s the teaching of [[Western classical music]],<ref name=":1" /> or its high esteem among the upper social classes of Colombo and Jaffna, where the learning of Carnatic music among young women is expected as a sign of good education.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tamil of Sri Lanka Facts, information, pictures {{!}} Encyclopedia.com articles about Tamil of Sri Lanka |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Tamil_of_Sri_Lanka.aspx |access-date=2016-06-10 |website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref> Many people have travelled to India for improving their skills, and the flow of students to India from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan Tamil origin is constantly increasing.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Srinivasan |first=Anil |title=Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora: The new force spreading Carnatic music and dance worldwide |url=http://scroll.in/article/769894/sri-lankan-tamil-diaspora-the-new-force-spreading-carnatic-music-and-dance-worldwide |access-date=2016-06-10 |website=Scroll.in |date=20 November 2015 |language=en-US}}</ref>