Bodies of song : Kabir oral traditions and performative worlds in Northern India /
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 history of written collections. First it focuses on texts - their transmission by singers, the dynamics of textual forms in oral performance, and the connections between texts in oral forms, written forms, and other media. Second, it attends to context, reception, and community. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199374199 0199374198 |