| Description |
1 online resource (350 pages) |
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Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture |
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Jerusalem studies in religion and culture.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Note on Transliteration; Note on Translation; Introduction; 1 Why Songs, and Why Bhaba Pagla's Songs?; 2 How to Study Bhaba Pagla's Lyrics?; 3 Filling the Gaps; 4 Limits, Obstacles and Strategies to Overcome Them; 5 Researching Sources; 6 Structure of the Book; Chapter 1 Context: Bauls, Baul Literature and the Absence of Bhaba Pagla; 1 Digesting a Critical Debate: Bauls' State of Art; 2 Representing Bhaba Pagla in Academic and Popular Literature |
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3 Escaping Classifications, Disappointing "The Communists": Perspectives on Bhaba Pagla's Absence from the Literature on Bauls4 Lack of Individuals, Focus on Traditions; 5 The "Archeology of Knowledge" on Bengali Oral Traditions -- A New Perspective for the Development of the Field; Chapter 2 Composition: The Songs of a Migrant Avadhūta; 1 The Composer: From Bhabendramohan to Bhaba "the Mad"; 2 The Compositions: A Return Trip from the Voice to the Ink; Chapter 3 Performance: Music for Money, Songs for Salvation; 1 A Multitude of Performative Contexts |
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2 The Performers: Footprints of Dust in the Limelight3 Enactment of the Performance: Sound, Text and the Sādhanā of Singing; Chapter 4 Transmission, Tradition and Technology: Training and Learning in the Bhaba Pagla Community; 1 Transmission and Its Media; 2 Technologizing of the Wor(l)d: The Impact of Audio-Video Reproduction Technologies on the Guru-Disciple Line of Transmission; Conclusions; Appendix: A Selection of Songs of Bhaba Pagla in English Translation; References; A Bibliography; B Catalog of Field-Work Recordings; C Discography; D Filmography; E Annotated Webliography |
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Index of NamesGeneral Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bhabāpāglā, 1902-1984.
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| SUBJECT |
Bhabāpāglā, 1902-1984 fast |
| Subject |
Bauls -- Religion
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Bauls -- Songs and music
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Bauls
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| Genre/Form |
Songs and music
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004324718 |
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9004324712 |
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