Tellings and texts music, literature and performance in North India
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Cambridge, UK]
Open Book Publishers
©2015, 2015
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| Series: | [World oral literature series]
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Part 1. Between texts and practices. The example in Dadupanthi Homiletics / Monika Horstmann
- Making it vernacular in Agra: the practice of translation by seventeenth-century Jains / John E. Cort
- World enough and time : religious strategy and historical imagination in an Indian Sufi tale / Muzaffar Alam
- Hearing Mo'jizat in South Asian Shi'ism / Amy Bard
- Part 2. Books and performances, books for performance. Note to self : What Marathi Kirtankars' notebooks suggest about literacy, performance, and the travelling performer in pre-colonial Maharashtra / Christian Lee Novetzke
- A handbook for storytellers : the Ṭirāz al-akhbār and the Qissa genre / Pasha M. Khan
- Did Surdas perform the Bhāgavata Purāṇa? / John Stratton Hawley
- Text, orality, and performance in Newar devotional music / Richard Widdess
- Part 3. Written clues about performed texts. Listening for the context : tuning in to the reception of Riti poetry / Allison Busch
- Reading the acts and lives of performers in Mughal Persian texts / Sunil Sharma
- Persian poets on the streets : the lore of Indo-Persian poetic circles in late Mughal India / Stefano Pellò
- Texts and tellings : kathas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Francesca Orsini
- A curious king, a psychic leper, and the workings of karma : Bajid's entertaining narratives / Imre Bangha
- Part 4. Musical knowledge and aesthetics. Raga in the early sixteenth century / Allyn Miner
- Learning to taste the emotions : the Mughal Rasika / Katherine Butler Schofield
- Patterns of composition in the seventeenth-century Bengali literature of Arakan / Thibaut d'Hubert
- The musical lives of texts : rhythms and communal relationships among the Nizamis and some of their neighbours in south and west Asia / Richard K. Wolf