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Book Sikh Sacred Music

Download or read book Sikh Sacred Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sikh Sacred Music

Download or read book Sikh Sacred Music written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Classical Music and Sikh Kirtan

Download or read book Indian Classical Music and Sikh Kirtan written by Gobind Singh Mansukhani and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of traditional Sikh devotional singing in the context of Indian classical music, Hindustan school.

Book Music in the Gurus  View

Download or read book Music in the Gurus View written by Charles Michael Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical study of transnational Sikhism through the lens of Gurbani kirtan, the living Sikh tradition and central religious practice of musically performing the hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib (the central Sikh scripture). It traces the history of Gurbani kirtan from the time of Guru Nanak (1469-1539, the first Guru of Sikhism) through its major developments and current practice in south Asia, and its role in the transference of Sikhism around the world, focusing especially on the Sikh community in America--which has roots dating back to the arrival of the first Sikh in America in the 1790s, but has grown rapidly since U.S. immigration reform starting in the 1960s. It is based on eight years of ethnographic research (primarily participant observation at Sikh sites and events, and formal and informal interviews) within American Sikh communities, especially among members of the mass movement to teach young generations of Sikhs in the U.S. how to perform Sikh sacred music. The latter chapters examine the internationally mobile population of students, performers, and teachers of the Gurbani kirtan tradition. It draws theoretical insights from performance studies and diaspora theory to interpret communal performances of Sikh sacred music as spaces for plural aesthetic experiences of Sikh-ness in new contexts and explores how Sikh religious and cultural identities in America are being formed, performed, and re-interpreted through participants' relationship with the practice of Gurbani kirtan.

Book Classics of Sikh Sacred Music

Download or read book Classics of Sikh Sacred Music written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sikhs

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  • Author : Gene R. Thursby
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9789004095540
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book The Sikhs written by Gene R. Thursby and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-six photographs that depict traditional sites and places of worship, major festivals, rites of the life cycle, and attempts by artists to represent great religious teachers and heroic martyrs provide the basis for this study of contemporary religious practices of Sikhs in Delhi and the Punjab region of northern India.

Book The Guru Granth Sahib

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  • Author : Pashaura Singh
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-09-26
  • ISBN : 0199087733
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Guru Granth Sahib written by Pashaura Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three closely related questions in the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition: how the text of the Adi Granth came into being, the meaning of gurbani, and how the Adi Granth became the Guru Granth Sahib. The censure of scholarly research on the Adi Granth was closely related to the complex political situation of Punjab and brought the whole issue of academic freedom into sharper focus. This book addresses some of these issues from an academic perspective. The Adi Granth, the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, means ‘first religious book’ (from the word ‘adi’ which means ‘first’ and ‘granth’ which means ‘religious book’). Sikhs normally refer to the Adi Granth as the Guru Granth Sahib to indicate a confession of faith in the scripture as Guru. The contents of the Adi Granth are commonly known as bani (utterance) or gurbani (the utterance of the Guru). The transcendental origin (or ontological status) of the hymns of the Adi Granth is termed dhur ki bani (utterance from the beginning). This particular understanding of revelation is based upon the doctrine of the sabad, or divine word, defined by Guru Nanak and the succeeding Gurus. This book also explores the revelation of the bani and its verbal expression, devotional music in the Sikh tradition, the role of the scripture in Sikh ceremonies, and the hymns of Guru Nanak and Guru Arjan.

Book Transnational Transcendence

Download or read book Transnational Transcendence written by Thomas J. Csordas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship—in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory.

Book Peace Lagoon

Download or read book Peace Lagoon written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music and Empire in Britain and India

Download or read book Music and Empire in Britain and India written by Bob van der Linden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.

Book Sacred Sound

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  • Author : Guy L. Beck
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2006-07-17
  • ISBN : 0889204217
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Sacred Sound written by Guy L. Beck and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This innovative book explores religion through music - the source of spiritual elation, social cohesion, and empowerment in cultures around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Book International Bibliography of Sikh Studies

Download or read book International Bibliography of Sikh Studies written by Rajwant Singh Chilana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Bibliography of Sikh Studies brings together all books, composite works, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, project reports, and electronic resources produced in the field of Sikh Studies until June 2004, making it the most complete and up-to-date reference work in the field today. One of the youngest religions of the world, Sikhism has progressively attracted attention on a global scale in recent decades. An increasing number of scholars is exploring the culture, history, politics, and religion of the Sikhs. The growing interest in Sikh Studies has resulted in an avalanche of literature, which is now for the first time brought together in the International Bibliography of Sikh Studies. This monumental work lists over 10,000 English-language publications under almost 30 subheadings, each representing a subfield in Sikh Studies. The Bibliography contains sections on a wide variety of subjects, such as Sikh gurus, Sikh philosophy, Sikh politics and Sikh religion. Furthermore, the encyclopedia presents an annotated survey of all major scholarly work on Sikhism, and a selective listing of electronic and web-based resources in the field. Author and subject indices are appended for the reader’s convenience.

Book Sacred and Secular Musics

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  • Author : Virinder S. Kalra
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-11-20
  • ISBN : 1441108661
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Sacred and Secular Musics written by Virinder S. Kalra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the 18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary exploration of what is ostensibly sacred music in South Asia. Offering a potent critique of musicological knowledge-making, Virinder S. Kalra explores examples of South Asian musics in various domains and traverses a new cartography of music in which the sacred and the secular overlap. Drawing on examples which include Qawwali, kirtan and popular devotional genres, Sacred and Secular Musics offers new empirical material, as well as new insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in which music performs sacredness and secularity across the contested India-Pakistan border in the region of Punjab. Through its deconstruction of the sacred/secular opposition, Sacred and Secular Musics explores the relationship of religion and music to wider questions of religion and politics. Its postcolonial approach brings Asia into the Western sacred/secular opposition, and provides a set of analytical tools - a language and range of theories - to allow further exploration of non-western religious music.

Book Sikh Musicology

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  • Author : Guranāma Siṅgha
  • Publisher : Kanishka Publishers Distributors
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Sikh Musicology written by Guranāma Siṅgha and published by Kanishka Publishers Distributors. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts To Highlight The Importance Of Shahad Kirtan In Accordance With The Established Tradition Of Sikh Musicology. Includes The Musical Notations Of 62 Ragas. The Author Calls It An Predominant Music Movement Of Indian Music. The Aim Is To Disseminate The Holy Message Of Shri Guru Granth Sahib.

Book Church Music

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  • Author : Richard C. Von Ende
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9780810812710
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Church Music written by Richard C. Von Ende and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies written by Pashaura Singh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook innovatively combines the ways in which scholars diverse fields (including philosophy, psychology, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics) have integrated the study of Sikhism within critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion.

Book Historical Dictionary of Sikhism

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sikhism written by Louis E. Fenech and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikhism traces its beginnings to Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469 and died in 1538 or 1539. With the life of Guru Nanak the account of the Sikh faith begins, all Sikhs acknowledging him as their founder. Sikhism has long been a little-understood religion and until recently they resided almost exclusively in northwest India. Today the total number of Sikhs is approximately twenty million worldwide. About a million live outside India, constituting a significant minority in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Many of them are highly visible, particularly the men, who wear beards and turbans, and they naturally attract attention in their new countries of domicile. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sikhism covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on key persons, organizations, the principles, precepts and practices of the religion as well as the history, culture and social arrangements. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sikhism.