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They Sing the Wedding of God - An Ethnomusicological Study of the Mahadevji ka byavala as Performed by the Nath-Jogis of Alwar (Paperback)
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They Sing the Wedding of God - An Ethnomusicological Study of the Mahadevji ka byavala as Performed by the Nath-Jogis of Alwar (Paperback)
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In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the
Nath-Jogīs, sing stories of kings who renounce their thrones to
become wandering mendicants. They also sing of a god, Mahadeva,
Shiva, who must abandon his world--renouncing life and reluctantly
marry. In so doing, he establishes the very caste that tells his
story. This book represents the first detailed ethnomusicological
study of the music of this caste, examining how the existential
questions of the sung stories--of the conflict between loyalty to
families or communities and the transcending desire to renounce the
material world--are articulated in musical performances in which
the caste's own ethnography is inscribed. The book discusses the
relationship between the performed repertoire and the caste's
identity, outlining the contexts of performance and how familiar
stories are effectively retold. It offers a transcription,
translation and musical and ethnographic analysis of one
performance, by Kishori Nath, and shows how the questions the
performances project are not merely speculative acts of
self-identification but also challenges to audiences to consider
their own responses.
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