Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman

A Journey between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation

Carola Lorea (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

334 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32470-1 (ISBN)

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In this book, Lorea explores the relationship between Bengali folklore, heterodox religious movements and politics of cultural representation through the contextual study of the eccentric guru Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), his ecstatic songs and their performers.

This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if examined as 'sacred scriptures', represent multi-dimensional texts for the study of South Asian religions. Revealing how previous studies about Bauls mirror the history of folkloristics in Bengal, this book presents sacred songs as a precious symbolic capital for a marginalized community of dislocated and unorthodox Hindus, who consider the practice of singing in itself an integral part of the path towards self-realization.

Carola Erika Lorea, PhD (2015), University of Rome, is a researcher in Bengali oral traditions. She has published books on Bengali language and literature, translations of contemporary Bengali authors and several articles on the folklore and sacred songs of the Bauls of West Bengal.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture ; 22
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-32470-4 / 9004324704
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32470-1 / 9789004324701
Zustand	Neuware