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

by Linda Hess

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199374163
• ISBN13: 9780199374168
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"