Bodies of song : Kabir oral traditions and performative worlds in Northern India

Bodies of song : Kabir oral traditions and performative worlds in Northern India / Linda Hess.

This volume studies the poetry and culture of Kabir - a great and still popular fifteenth-century religious poet of North India - through the lens of oral-performative traditions. It draws from ethnographic research conducted over a ten-year period, mainly in Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, as well as on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hess, Linda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Kabir, > active 15th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Kabir, > active 15th century
Oral tradition > India > Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
Oral tradition
Religion
Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India) > Religion.
India > Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1. "You Must Meet Prahladji!"
  • 2. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Observing Texts
  • 3. True Words of Kabir: Adventures in Authenticity
  • 4. In the Jeweler's Bazaar: Malwa's Kabir
  • 5. Oral Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring Theory
  • 6. A Scorching Fire, a Cool Pool
  • 7. Fighting over Kabir's Dead Body
  • 8. Political/Spiritual Kabir.

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