"...the musical ambience in the cultural centre of Tamil Nadu – in and around Tanjaavuur in the times of the great composers, several factors point in the direction of the Carnatic music fraternity being fairly large and also a fair amount of musical sophistication can be attributed to them. The bhajana tradition had exposed the common people to a lot of music. For instance, consider the practice unjavrutti (going along the streets singing and collecting food for the day) that, unarguably, the greatest composer of Carnatic music – Thyagraja - is supposed to have unfailingly followed all his life. It meant that the community in which he lived was exposed to his music every day of their lives"
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