Folklore, religion and the songs of a Bengali madman a journey between performance and the politics of cultural representation
Dissertation, Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza, 2015
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
volume 22 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza, 2015 Includes index This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards self-realization |
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| Beschreibung: | XVI, 332 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Karte |
| ISBN: | 9789004324701 978-90-04-32470-1 |