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- catalog abstract ""'Bauls' have become renowned as wandering minstrels and mystics of India and Bangladesh, and are known through their beautiful and often enigmatic songs. They are recruited from both Hindu and Muslim communities, privileging the human being over such identities. Despite their iconic status as representatives of the 'spiritual East', and although they have been the subject of a number of studies, systematic research with Bauls themselves has been largely neglected, Jeanne Openshaw's book is new, not only in analysing the rise of Bauls to their present revered status, but in the depth of its ethnographic research and its reference to the lives of composers and singers as a context for their songs. The author uses her fieldwork and oral and manuscript materials to lead the reader from conventional historical and textual approaches towards a world defined by people called 'Baul', where the human body and love are primary, and female is extolled above male. This is a compelling story of creativity and dissent even in the face of persecution."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12573703.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""'Bauls' have become renowned as wandering minstrels and mystics of India and Bangladesh, and are known through their beautiful and often enigmatic songs. They are recruited from both Hindu and Muslim communities, privileging the human being over such identities. Despite their iconic status as representatives of the 'spiritual East', and although they have been the subject of a number of studies, systematic research with Bauls themselves has been largely neglected, Jeanne Openshaw's book is new, not only in analysing the rise of Bauls to their present revered status, but in the depth of its ethnographic research and its reference to the lives of composers and singers as a context for their songs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-279) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. Background: Literature on Bauls and Baul-songs -- What's in a name? The advent of 'the Baul' -- Making of the Bauls: histories, themes, Baul-songs -- Part II. In search of Bauls -- Fieldwork in Rarh -- Fieldwork in Bagri -- Part III. Received classifications -- Two shores, two refuges: householder and renouncer -- Evading the two shores: the guru -- Part IV. Reworking the classifications -- Affect: love and women -- Theory: images the 'I' and bartaman -- Part V. Practice and talking about practice (hari-katha) -- Practice (sadhana) -- 'Four moons' practice and talking about practice.".
- catalog description "The author uses her fieldwork and oral and manuscript materials to lead the reader from conventional historical and textual approaches towards a world defined by people called 'Baul', where the human body and love are primary, and female is extolled above male. This is a compelling story of creativity and dissent even in the face of persecution."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 288 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521811252".
- catalog isPartOf "University of Cambridge oriental publications, 60".
- catalog isPartOf "University of Cambridge oriental publications, no. 60.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Bangladesh.".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "294.5/512 21".
- catalog subject "BL1284.84 .O74 2002".
- catalog subject "Bauls Bangladesh.".
- catalog subject "Bauls India.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Background: Literature on Bauls and Baul-songs -- What's in a name? The advent of 'the Baul' -- Making of the Bauls: histories, themes, Baul-songs -- Part II. In search of Bauls -- Fieldwork in Rarh -- Fieldwork in Bagri -- Part III. Received classifications -- Two shores, two refuges: householder and renouncer -- Evading the two shores: the guru -- Part IV. Reworking the classifications -- Affect: love and women -- Theory: images the 'I' and bartaman -- Part V. Practice and talking about practice (hari-katha) -- Practice (sadhana) -- 'Four moons' practice and talking about practice.".
- catalog title "Seeking Bāuls of Bengal / Jeanne Openshaw.".
- catalog type "text".