Everyday Creativity
Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Everyday Creativity
Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra songs about difficulties on the lives of goddesses and female saints as a path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in courtyards or the subtle balance of flavors in a meal, well-crafted songs offer a variety of deeply meaningful benefits: as a way of making something of value, as a means of establishing a community of shared pleasure and skill, as a path through hardships and limitations, and as an arena of renewed possibility. Everyday Creativity makes big the small world of Kangra song and opens up new ways of thinking about what creativity is to us and why we are so compelled to engage it.
256 pages | 9 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2016
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: South Asia
Music: Ethnomusicology
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Finding Form
1. Tending Lives through Songs
2. The Ground That Grows Songs
3. Attaining: The Mountain Daughter’s Many Forms
4. Playing: Krishna’s Mothers, Sister, and Lovers
5. Going: Saili as Plant and Goddess
6. Bathing: The Transformative Flows of Sound
7. Reaching the Head
A Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
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