Singers Die Twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, Perer Pannke has traveled from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, Darbhanga, and the forests of Vrindaban to study classical Indian singing in the most famous gharanas - musical houses - of India. His richly woven story takes readers from the legendary beginning of the gharana in the eighteenth century into the last splendid days of the Maharaja of Darbhanga - the inspiration for Satyajit Ray's 1957 classic film, The Music Room - and into the present. Along the way, we meet legendary singers whose names are still known to the devotees of dhrupad: the grand old Pandit Ram Chatur Mallik, the pious and inspiring Pandit Vidur Mallik, and both the masters and the humbler musicians and traveling players who bring music to the fields of Bihar, across India, and beyond. Singers Die Twice is the inspiring story of a master musician in the world that he loves.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seagull Books London LTD
ISBN-13
9780857421043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
152575828
Product Key Features
Book Title
Singers Die Twice: a Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Author
Peter Pannke
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
340 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
237mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
516g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter Pannke
Series Title
The German List
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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