| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Big issues in music
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Big issues in music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Finding form -- Tending lives through songs -- The ground that grows songs -- Attaining: the mountain daughter's many forms -- Playing: Krishna's mothers, sister, and lovers -- Going: Saili as plant and goddess -- Bathing: the transformative flows of sound -- Reaching the head. |
| Summary |
Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, 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 brings this remote region in North India alive in sight and sound while celebrating the incredible powers of music in our lives. With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra songs about difficulties on the lives of goddesses and female saints as a path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in courtyards or the subtle balance of flavors in a meal, well-crafted songs offer a variety of deeply meaningful benefits: as a way of making something of value, as a means of establishing a community of shared pleasure and skill, as a path through hardships and limitations, and as an arena of renewed possibility. Everyday Creativity makes big the small world of Kangra song and opens up new ways of thinking about what creativity is to us and why we are so compelled to engage it. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects -- India -- Kāngra (District)
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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India -- Kāngra (District) |
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Women singers -- India -- Kāngra (District)
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Women singers. |
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Kāngra (India : District) -- Social life and customs.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice. |
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MUSIC -- Lyrics. |
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Indexed Term |
Australian |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Narayan, Kirin. Everyday creativity. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226407425 022640742X (DLC) 2016021174 (OCoLC)944087618 |
| ISBN |
9780226407739 (electronic book) |
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022640773X (electronic book) |
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9780226407425 |
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022640742X |
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9780226407562 |
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022640756X |
| Standard No. |
40026601003 |
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