Amit Chaudhuri

Finding the Raga (MP3-Download)

An Improvisation on Indian Music Ungekürzte Lesung. 334 Min.
Sprecher: Al-Kaisi, Fajer

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Produktbeschreibung

'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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571371037
• Artikelnr.: 69042888

Autorenporträt

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as four books of essays, three books of poems, two works of non-fiction, a collection of short stories, and a critical study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia from 2006 until 2021, and he is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University. He edits literaryactivism.com. He is a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a celebrated project that brings together different musical traditions.