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Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema

Author : Anna Morcom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351563742
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema written by Anna Morcom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence felt strongly in many global contexts. Hindi film songs have been described on the one hand as highly standardized and on the other as highly eclectic. Anna Morcom addresses many of the paradoxes eccentricities and myths of not just Hindi film songs but also of Hindi cinema by analysing film songs in cinematic context. While the presence of songs in Hindi films is commonly dismissed aspurely commercial this book demonstrates that in terms of the production process, musical style, and commercial life, it is most powerfully the parent film that shapes and defines the film songs and their success rather than the other way round. While they constitute India‘s still foremost genre of popular music, film songs are also situational, dramatic sequences, inherently multi-media in style and conception. This book is uniquely grounded in detailed musical and visual analysis of Hindi film songs, song sequences and films as well as a wealth of ethnographic material from the Hindi film and music industries. Its findings lead to highly novel ways of viewing Hindi film songs, their key role in Hindi cinema, and how this affects their wider life in India and across the globe. It will be indispensable to scholars seeking to understand both Hindi film songs and Hindi cinema. It also forms a major contribution to popular music, popular culture, film music studies and ethnomusicology, tackling pertinent issues of cultural production, (multi-)media, and the cross-cultural use of music in Hindi cinema. The book caters for both music specialists as well as a wider audience.

The Weaver's Songs

Author : Kabir
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143029687
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Weaver's Songs written by Kabir and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and works of a Hindu saint poet.

The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan

Author : Yogi Bhajan
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan written by Yogi Bhajan and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Author : Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136095942
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.To purchase the set please go to:http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932.

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

Author : Ellen Koskoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415994047
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia written by Ellen Koskoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical importance of past for the present--of music histories in local and global forms--asserts itself. The history of world music, as each chapter makes clear, is one of critical moments and paradigm shifts.

Rapt in the Name

Author : Ramdas Lamb
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791453865
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Rapt in the Name written by Ramdas Lamb and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Ram bhakti tradition and a fascinating account of its practice among a group of Central Indian Untouchables.

Genealogy, Archive, Image

Author : Angma Jhala
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110539454
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Genealogy, Archive, Image written by Angma Jhala and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over the longue durée, from the eleventh to twentieth centuries. The essays critique a collection of contemporary miniature paintings, which chart the dynastic history of Jhalavad’s rulers and the textual and ethnographic archive upon which they are based. A multidisciplinary work, it crosses the boundaries of history, anthropology, folklore and mythology, gender, musicology, literary studies, and visual, film and digital media. The essays draw upon a variety of voices, spanning various religious and ethnic communities, including Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Parsees and Siddhi Africans, and caste identities, such as that of the bard, ballad singer, king, priest, court chronicler, soldier, mason and drummer De Gruyter Open apologizes for the fact that the April 2017 edition of the book titled ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c.1090-2016’, published by De Gruyter Open, included on pages 72, 79 and 80 text originating from the website http://www.royalark.net/India/dhranga8.htm, the editor of which is Mr. Christopher Buyers, which text presented the results of Mr Christopher Buyers’s research and was included in that edition without reference to its source. These three passages were inserted by Jayasinhji Jhala without the knowledge of John McLeod, the author of the chapter in which they appeared.

Gatherings In Diaspora

Author : Stephen Warner
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 156639614X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Gatherings In Diaspora written by Stephen Warner and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.

THE INDIAN LISTENER

Author :
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-07-1939 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 79 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. IV, No. 14. Document ID: INL-1939 (J-D) Vol- II (02)

Sanathana Sarathi English Volume 02 (1970 to 1979)

Author : Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre
Publisher : Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2293 pages
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Download or read book Sanathana Sarathi English Volume 02 (1970 to 1979) written by Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre and published by Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre . This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 2293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Started in 1958, Sanathana Sarathi is a monthly magazine devoted to Sathya (Truth), Dharma (Righteousness), Shanti (Peace) and Prema (Love) - the four cardinal principles of Bhagawan Baba's philosophy. It is published from Prasanthi Nilayam (the Abode of Highest Peace) and acts as a mouthpiece of Baba's Ashram as it speaks of the important events that take place in His sacred Abode, besides carrying Divine Messages conveyed through Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The word meaning of Sanathana Sarathi is the 'Eternal Charioteer'. It signifies the presence of the Lord in every being as the atma guiding their lives like a charioteer. It implies that he who places his life, the body being likened to a chariot, in an attitude of surrender in the hands of the Lord, will be taken care of by the Lord even as a charioteer would take the occupant of his chariot safely to its destination. The magazine is an instrument to disseminate spiritual knowledge for the moral, physical and mental uplift of humanity without any discrimination as the subject matter discussed therein is always of common interest and of universal appeal. The fifteen Vahinis - streams of sacredness - known as the Vahini Series comprising annotation and interpretation of the Upanishads and other scriptures, Itihasas like the Ramayana, the Bhagavatha and the Mahabharata, and authentic explanations on Dhyana, Dharma, Prema, etc., have been serially published in this magazine as and when they emanated from the Divine pen of Bhagawan Baba. This magazine is published in almost all Indian languages, English and Telugu from Prasanthi Nilayam and others from respective regions. Every year Sanathana Sarathi comes out with a special issue in November commemorating the Divine Birthday. The English and Telugu magazines are posted on the 10th and 23rd respectively, of every month, from Prasanthi Nilayam. This magazine has wide, ever increasing circulation in India as well as abroad, as the study of it brings the reader closer to the philosophy of the Avatar in simple understandable language THUS SPAKE SAI... Discoursing during the launch of Sanathana Sarathi... From this day, our Sanathana Sarathi will lead to victory the cohorts of truth - the Vedas, the Sastras and similar scriptures of all faiths, against the forces of the ego such as injustice, falsehood, immorality and cruelty. This is the reason why it has emerged. This Sarathi will fight in order to establish world prosperity. It is bound to sound the paean of triumph when universal Ananda is achieved.

AKASHVANI

Author : All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book AKASHVANI written by All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi. This book was released on 1979-03-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 11 MARCH, 1979 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 68 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLIV, No. 10 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 5-30, 40-63 ARTICLE: 1. Revised Minimum Needs Programme 2. Cricket Today 3. Our Engineering Industry 4. Human Rights Today 5. Uses of Isotopes In Agriculture 6. Multi Party System And Future of Democracy 7. Warning Signals of Disease 8. Freedom From Tension AUTHOR: 1. Prof. D.T. Lakdawala 2. Capt. Vijay S. Hazare 3. R.C. Ummat 4. Dr. Barakat Ahmad 5. Tapan Kumar Das 6. Dr. R. S. Lyngdoh 7. Dr. Ajit Kumar Puri 8. Dr. K. V. Devadiga Document ID : APE-1979 (J-M) Vol-I-10 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Bhajan

Author : Swami B. B. Tirtha
Publisher : Mandala Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781886069831
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Bhajan written by Swami B. B. Tirtha and published by Mandala Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to their celebrated CD-book Darshan, Rasa's Union CD is elaborately repackaged, illustrated by Kim Waters and some of India's finest contemporary artists. Bhajan includes in-depth information about these beautiful Bengali devotional songs and the tradition they spring from, with emphasis on transcendental sound vibration. Also included are song translations and transliterations, artists' interviews, biographies and articles on the tradition of devotional chanting and the people who bring it to life.

New Religious Consciousness

Author : Charles Y. Glock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520378199
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book New Religious Consciousness written by Charles Y. Glock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1960s, new religious movements—some exotic, some homegrown—have burgeoned all over the United States. A sense of self-awareness and spiritual sensitivity have found expression in the lives of large numbers of people, especially among youth. Why would this happen? What do these movements teach, and what effect do they have on the future? How does religious consciousness relate to other manifestations of social change, such as communal living, group therapy, and radical politics? Beginning in 1971, an extensive research project was undertaken by a team of sociologists, historians, and theologians seeking answers to these questions. Through a combination of interviews and participant observations, they studied new religious and quasi-religious groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, a spawning ground for upwards of one hundred such movements. The New Religious Consciousness opens with reports on three Eastern-based movements: the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization, Hare Krishna, and Divine Light (more popularly known by the name of its leader, Maharaj Ji). Three quasi-religious movements are then considered: the New Left, the Human Potential Movement (Esalen, EST, Scientology, etc.), and Synanon. Next, three movements having their roots in Western religious traditions are examined: the Christian World Liberation Front (an offshoot of the Jesus Movement), Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and the Church of Satan (whose members believe in witchcraft). Succeeding chapters are devoted to estimating the impact of these movements on established religions and the population at large and to the history of earlier periods of religious ferment in the United States. The book concludes with provocative essays by the editors in which they present separate and differing analyses of the sources, nature, and meaning of the new religious consciousness. A variety of perspectives are represented here: phenomenological, theological, experiential, sociological, and social psychological. The result is a book rich in insight about the nature of new religions. Taken together with a companion volume, Robert Wuthnow's The Consciousness Reformation, also published by University of California Press, The New Religious Consciousness provides the first comprehensive study of American countercultural belief systems. With contributions by: Randall H. Alfred Robert N. Bellah Charles Y. Glock Barbara Hargrove Donald Heinz Gregory Johnson Ralph Lane, Jr. Jeanne Messer Richard Ofshe Thomas Piazza Linda K. Pritchard Donald Stone Alan Tobey James Wolfe Robert Wuthnow This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

AKASHVANI

Author : Publications Division (India),New Delhi
Publisher : Publications Division (India),New Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book AKASHVANI written by Publications Division (India),New Delhi and published by Publications Division (India),New Delhi. This book was released on 1960-05-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Akashvani" (English ) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO ,it was formerly known as The Indian Listener.It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists.It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 29/05/1960 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 48 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXV. No. 22. BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 08-48 ARTICLE: 1. What is true Religion ? 2. The Common Crow 3. Asia and the West AUTHOR: 1. K . Seshadri 2. M. K rishnan 3. S. A. Govindarajan KEYWORDS : An enrichment,‘creaturly’ character,life-blood So versatile,urbanite’s ignorance,amateur assassin The two strongest,India’s role,efforts to restrain Document ID : APE-1960-(J-J)-Vol-I-22 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matter published in this and other AIR journals.For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Bodies of Song

Author : Linda Hess
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273178
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Song written by Linda Hess and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Bodies of Song combines ethnographic and textual study in exploring how oral transmission and performance shape the content and interpretation of vernacular poetry in North India. The book investigates textual scholars' study of oral-performative traditions in a milieu where texts move simultaneously via oral, written, audio/video-recorded, and electronic pathways. As texts and performances are always socially embedded, Linda Hess brings readers into the lives of those who sing, hear, celebrate, revere, and dispute about Kabir. Bodies of Song is rich in stories of individuals and families, villages and towns, religious and secular organizations, castes and communities. Dialogue between religious/spiritual Kabir and social/political Kabir is a continuous theme throughout the book: ambiguously located between Hindu and Muslim cultures, Kabir rejected religious identities, pretentions, and hypocrisies. But even while satirizing the religious, he composed stunning poetry of religious experience and psychological insight. A weaver by trade, Kabir also criticized caste and other inequalities and today serves as an icon for Dalits and all who strive to remove caste prejudice and oppression.

The Absorption of Hydrocarbon Gases by Non-aqueous Liquids

Author : Alonzo Simpson McDaniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Dāphā: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City

Author : Richard Widdess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946277
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Dāphā: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City written by Richard Widdess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dāphā, or dāphā bhajan, is a genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional singing, performed by male, non-professional musicians of the farmer and other castes belonging to the Newar ethnic group, in the towns and villages of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The songs, their texts, and their characteristic responsorial performance-style represent an extension of pan-South Asian traditions of rāga- and tāla-based devotional song, but at the same time embody distinctive characteristics of Newar culture. This culture is of unique importance as an urban South Asian society in which many traditional models survive into the modern age. There are few book-length studies of non-classical vocal music in South Asia, and none of dāphā. Richard Widdess describes the music and musical practices of dāphā, accounts for their historical origins and later transformations, investigates links with other South Asian traditions, and describes a cultural world in which music is an integral part of everyday social and religious life. The book focusses particularly on the musical system and structures of dāphā, but aims to integrate their analysis with that of the cultural and historical context of the music, in order to address the question of what music means in a traditional South Asian society.