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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri

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#902 of 3,809 books · #353 in Biography & Memoir

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2021).

Finding the Raga won the James Tait Black Prize. Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practises will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be. Through essay, memoir and cultural study, Chaudhuri dwells on the music's most distinctive and mysterious characteristics, resulting in a gift of a book for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571370764
Topics
Indian classical musicRaga traditionMemoir and cultural study

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