Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India

by Linda Hess

Book Overview

Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present only a partial picture of the Kabir who has remained vibrantly alive through the centuries mostly in oral forms. Entering the worlds of singers and listeners in rural Madhya Pradesh,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199374171
• ISBN13: 9780199374175
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"