Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Faber & Faber
- 発売日
- 2021-04-08
- ページ数
- 272ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780349016146
- ISBN-10
- 0571219101
- 価格
- 3052 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be. Tracing the music's development, Finding the Raga dwells on its most distinctive and mysterious characteristics: its extraordinary approach to time, language and silence; its embrace of confoundment, and its ethos of evocation over representation. The result is a strange gift of a book, for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration. 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation and insight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorous beauty and cosmology of Indian classical music. It is also a loving memoir about relationships and places, dedication and vocation.' Geoff Dyer
Amit Chaudhuri is the acclaimed author of six novels, including Odysseus Abroad and A Strange and Sublime Address , and two books of essays. He has been awarded the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Encore Award, the LA Times Book Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the English Association, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize. Currently he is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
レビュー
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Just read it
This should be included as a textbook for North Indian classical musicians/ vocalists. We’ve always eluded to the information from multiple sources and from life experiences felt this but this is everything put in one place. Absolutely phenomenal!!! Am a legit fan Sir
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Very good book
Very good book
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Good Book
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Great read
Great read, a bit too biographical and irrelevant at times, but makes up for it with deep insights into the culture and practice of Hindustani classical music.
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Sublime abstraction, discovery and impeccable insight in poetic prose
A historical cum modernist cum Renaissance perspective on the art, science and practice of the world of Ragas. 150 pages of sheer delight.