Singing Emptiness
Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir
Distributed for Seagull Books
166 pages
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1 CD
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6 1/4 x 9 1/2
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© 2009
Here, two men, 5 centuries apart, make contact with each other through poetry, music, and performance. Kumar Gandharva, the great 20th Century Hindustani classical vocalist, sings Kabir, the great 15th Century poet. Kabir composed poetry that evoked a space called nirgun or shunya – something without qualities or boundaries, empty - which challenged listeners to know it and to know themselves. Kumar Gandharva, drawn to Kabir and other poets of the nirgun experience, seeks the voice that can actually sing emptiness. Singing Emptiness includes an explanatory introduction, bilingual texts of 30 songs, and a CD with selected songs by Kumar Gandharva.
Contents
On Transliteration
Preface: The Story of this Book
Kumar Gandharva
A Poem by U.R. Ananthamurthy
Introduction
About the Texts and Translations
About the CD
The Songs
Avsan / 'Passing Away'
an Essay by Ashok Vajpeyi
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
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