03981nam 22005535 450 991013670020332120230126214803.00-226-40773-X10.7208/9780226407739(CKB)3710000000907324(MiAaPQ)EBC4532279(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588424(DE-B1597)523909(OCoLC)960458140(DE-B1597)9780226407739(EXLCZ)99371000000090732420200424h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEveryday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills /Kirin NarayanChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (279 pages)Big Issues in MusicPreviously issued in print: 2016.0-226-40756-X 0-226-40742-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Todi in the Forest of Song -- Finding Form -- 1. Tending Lives through Songs -- 2. The Ground That Grows Songs -- 3. Attaining: The Mountain Daughter's Many Forms -- 4. Playing: Krishna's Mothers, Sister, and Lovers -- 5. Going: Saili as Plant and Goddess -- 6. Bathing: The Transformative Flows of Sound -- Reaching the Head -- A Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexKirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health-all benefits of the "everyday creativity" she explores in this book. Part ethnography, part musical discovery, part poetry, part memoir, and part unforgettable portraits of creative individuals, this unique work brings this remote region in North India alive in sight and sound while celebrating the incredible powers of music in our lives. With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra songs about difficulties on the lives of goddesses and female saints as a path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in courtyards or the subtle balance of flavors in a meal, well-crafted songs offer a variety of deeply meaningful benefits: as a way of making something of value, as a means of establishing a community of shared pleasure and skill, as a path through hardships and limitations, and as an arena of renewed possibility. Everyday Creativity makes big the small world of Kangra song and opens up new ways of thinking about what creativity is to us and why we are so compelled to engage it.Big issues in music.MusicSocial aspectsIndiaKāngra (District)Women singersIndiaKāngra (District)Kāngra (India : District)Social life and customssinging, goddesses, goddess, himalayas, himalayan, foothills, middle east, asia, asian, mountains, mountain range, india, china, kangra, women, womanhood, anthropology, anthropologist, college, university, higher education, academic, scholarly, research, companionship, creativity, ethnography, poetry, memoir, interdisciplinary, biographical, biography, saints, music, songs, social studies.MusicSocial aspectsWomen singers782.42162914110082Narayan Kirin, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut866560Bohlman Philip V446241DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910136700203321Everyday Creativity1934337UNINA