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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, Linda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kabir, active 15th century--Criticism and interpretation.

Kabir.

Oral tradition--India--Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan).

Oral tradition.

Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India)--Religion.

Malwa (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 467 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 19, 2015).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9780199374199

0-19-937419-8