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By John Napier

In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the Nath-Jogis, sing tales of kings who surrender their thrones to turn into wandering mendicants. additionally they sing of a god, Mahadeva, Shiva, who needs to abandon his world-renouncing existence and marry, hence constructing the very caste that tells his tale. this can be the 1st exact ethnomusicological research of the track of this caste, interpreting how the existential questions of the sung stories—of the clash among loyalty to households or groups and the transcending wish to surrender the fabric world—are articulated in musical performances within which the caste’s personal ethnography is inscribed.
Discussing the connection among the played repertoire and the caste’s identification, the contexts of functionality and ways that common tales are successfully retold, the booklet deals a transcription, translation and musical and ethnographic research of 1 functionality, by means of Kishori Nath, and exhibits how the questions the performances venture usually are not in simple terms speculative acts of self-identification but additionally demanding situations to audiences to think about their very own responses.

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