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Everyday creativity : singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills / Kirin Narayan.
- Title
- Everyday creativity : singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills / Kirin Narayan.
- Author
- Narayan, Kirin
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 254 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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. --Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Big issues in music
- Uniform Title
- Big issues in music.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780226407425
- 022640742X
- 9780226407562
- 022640756X
- 9780226407739 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016021174
- OCLC
- 944087618
- SCSB-10267318
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library