{"product_id":"bodies-of-song-kabir-oral-traditions-and-performative-worlds-in-north-india-9780199374175","title":"Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India","description":"\u003cp\u003eKabir 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647439560757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0199374171","price":48.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199374175.jpg?v=1781692476","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bodies-of-song-kabir-oral-traditions-and-performative-worlds-in-north-india-9780199374175","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}