Folklore Religion And The Songs Of A Bengali Madman
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Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman
Author | : Carola Lorea |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004324712 |
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This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards self-realization.
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