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21%OFFKirin Narayan - Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Big Issues in Music) - 9780226407562 - V9780226407562
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Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Big Issues in Music)

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Description for Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Big Issues in Music) Paperback. Series: Big Issues in Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; AVGH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time, as a girl visiting the region, that she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health all benefits of the everyday creativity she explores in this book. Part ethnography, part musical discovery, part poetry, part memoir, and part unforgettable portraits of creative individuals, this unique work draws on an association across forty years, and brings the Himalayan foothill region of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Big Issues in Music
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226407562
SKU
V9780226407562
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99-50

About Kirin Narayan
Kirin Narayan is professor in the School of Culture, History, and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australia National University. She is the author of several books, including My Family and Other Saints and Alive in the Writing, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews for Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Big Issues in Music)
This highly original book, based on a rich but mostly unknown corpus of oral texts from the western Himalayas, reveals a world in which gods and goddesses from the classical Indian pantheon mingle with human beings, particularly women, and take part in their everyday lives, their communal rituals, and their deepest emotions. The translated songs are ravishing, and the ethnographic ... Read more

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