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Music for a goddess / is a creation by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy.
LIBRA DVD 008 009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Kannada
- Subjects (All):
- Goddess religion--India.
- Goddess religion.
- Rēṇukāmbe (Hindu deity).
- Hindu goddesses.
- Musical instruments--India.
- Musical instruments.
- East Indians--Religion.
- East Indians.
- India.
- Music--India.
- Music.
- Ceṇḍa.
- India--Religion.
- Religion.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Religious films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Van Nuys, CA] : Apsara Media, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Voiceover narration in English; songs in Kannada?.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "This narrated DVD explores the sacred music, dance and rituals of devidasis and devidasas, women and men dedicated to the Goddess Renuka/Yellamma." -- Container.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction : pilgrimage (at the Full Moon)
- 2. Autobiography of a Goddess
- 3. Parasurama creates the chaundke
- 4. Women chaundke players on the Maharashtra/Karnataka border
- 5. Songs at Renuka/Yellamma's hill temple
- 6. Dance of the Devidasas
- 7. Arnold Bake's 1938 recording in 1999
- 8. Alms for the Goddess
- 9. A play on alms with Cawandga trio
- 10. The oracle speaks
- 11. Widow's bangle breaking ritual
- 12. Baby-dropping and firewalking rituals
- 13. Voices of Jagwalis, Devidasis, Devidasas, Jogtas, Jogas, Jogtis, Jogappas, Pujaris. I). Life of Shantabai Jagwali. II). Life of Ishvara Jogappa, Sangita Jogti. III). Life of Ananda Rao Birenje, Pujari. IV) Life of Ramaa Joga 'Devidasa'
- 14. Songs of protest from within the tradition
- 15. Death of a music?
- 16. The Goddess speaks on modernity and the future
- 17. Credits and acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2007.
- Special features: Director's cut; transgender thread; bonus tracks.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1880519348
- 9781880519349
- OCLC:
- 214329453
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