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Everyday Creativity
- Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Engelsk Paperback
Everyday Creativity
- Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Engelsk Paperback

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Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time, as a girl visiting the region, that 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 draws on an association across forty years, and brings the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780226407562
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022640756X
Udg. Dato:
22 nov 2016
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
22 nov 2016
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