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Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad

Door Peter Pannke

Categorie
Algemeen Muziek
Boeknummer
#388326-UH17
Titel
Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Auteur
Pannke, Peter
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Calcutta : Seagull Books
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
0857421042
ISBN13
9780857421043
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Singers Die Twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, Perer Pannke has traveled from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, Darbhanga, and the forests of Vrindaban to study classical Indian singing in the most famous gharanas - musical houses - of India. His richly woven story takes readers from the legendary beginning of the gharana in the eighteenth century into the last splendid days of the Maharaja of Darbhanga - the inspiration for Satyajit Ray's 1957 classic film, The Music Room - and into the present. Along the way, we meet legendary singers whose names are still known to the devotees of dhrupad: the grand old Pandit Ram Chatur Mallik, the pious and inspiring Pandit Vidur Mallik, and b... (Lees verder)oth the masters and the humbler musicians and traveling players who bring music to the fields of Bihar, across India, and beyond. Singers Die Twice is the inspiring story of a master musician in the world that he loves.
Pagina's
220
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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