Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Carola Erika Lorea
This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards self-realization.
Год:
2016
Издательство:
Brill Academic Publishers
Язык:
english
ISBN 10:
9004324704
ISBN 13:
9789004324701
Серия:
Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 22
Файл:
PDF, 8.10 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016