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• Title : Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India
• Author : Linda Hess
• Rating : 4.71 (270 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-12-14
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 488 Pages
• Asin : 0199374171
• Language : English

Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."--CHOICE. "Recommended

The book investigates textual scholars' study of oral-performative traditions in a milieu where texts move simultaneously via oral, written, audio/video-recorded, and electronic pathways.As texts and performances are always socially embedded, Linda Hess brings readers into the lives of those who sing, hear, celebrate, revere, and dispute about Kabir. But even while satirizing the religious, he composed stunning poetry of religious experience and psychological insight. Entering the worlds of singers and listeners in rural Madhya Pradesh, Bodies of Song combines ethnographic and textual study in exploring how oral transmission and performance shape the content and interpretation of vernacular poetry in North India. Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Bodies of Song is rich in stories of individuals and families, villages and towns, religious and secular organizations, castes and com

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Linda Hess is a Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at Stanford University.