Everyday creativity
Subtitle: singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills
By: Kirin Narayan
Series: Big issues in music; Big issues in music
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780226407425; 9780226407562
Subjects: Women singers; Social life and customs; Music
Other titles: Singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Todi in the forest of song / Philip V. Bohlman; title: Finding form; title: Tending lives through songs; title: The ground that grows songs; title: Attaining : the mountain daughter's many forms; title: Playing : Krishna's mothers, sister, and lovers; title: Going : Saili as plant and goddess; title: Bathing : the transformative flows of sound; title: Reaching the head.