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Everyday creativity : singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills /

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 accomp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Narayan, Kirin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Series:Big issues in music.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.