{"product_id":"finding-the-raga-an-improvisation-on-indian-music-paperback","title":"Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmit Chaudhuri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high-rise in Bombay, far from his family's native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his prior inclinations, to study Indian classical music. \u003ci\u003eFinding the Raga\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles that transformation and how it has continued to affect and transform not only how Chaudhuri listens to and makes music but how he listens to and thinks about the world at large. Offering a highly personal introduction to Indian music, the book is also a meditation on the differences between Indian and Western music and art-making as well as the ways they converge in a modernism that Chaudhuri reframes not as a twentieth-century Western art movement but as a fundamental mode of aesthetic response, at once immemorial and extraterritorial. \u003ci\u003eFinding the Raga\u003c\/i\u003e combines memoir, practical and cultural criticism, and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging, challenging, and enthralling body of work.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmit Chaudhuri\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven novels, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eFriend of My Youth\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other published works are collections of short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as the nonfiction \u003ci\u003eCalcutta\u003c\/i\u003e and a critical study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry. He has received the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. Chaudhuri is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds the titles of Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia in England and Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University in India. In addition, he is a singer in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a project that brings together the raga, blues, and jazz with a variety of other musical traditions. In 2017 he received the Sangeet Samman from the government of West Bengal for his contribution to Indian classical music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 11 x 8.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769271910688,"sku":"9781681374789","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4cfa7c9fae9b0ff396334e5e70a576dd.webp?v=1780344811","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/finding-the-raga-an-improvisation-on-indian-music-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}