Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir
Here, two men, 5 centuries apart, make contact with each other through poetry, music, and performance. Kumar Gandharva, the great 20th Century Hindustani classical vocalist, sings Kabir, the great 15th Century poet. Kabir composed poetry that evoked a space called nirgun or shunya – something without qualities or boundaries, empty - which challenged listeners to know it and to know themselves. Kumar Gandharva, drawn to Kabir and other poets of the nirgun experience, seeks the voice that can...
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Here, two men, 5 centuries apart, make contact with each other through poetry, music, and performance. Kumar Gandharva, the great 20th Century Hindustani classical vocalist, sings Kabir, the great 15th Century poet. Kabir composed poetry that evoked a space called nirgun or shunya – something without qualities or boundaries, empty - which challenged listeners to know it and to know themselves. Kumar Gandharva, drawn to Kabir and other poets of the nirgun experience, seeks the voice that can actually sing emptiness. Singing Emptiness includes an explanatory introduction, bilingual texts of 30 songs, and a CD with selected songs by Kumar Gandharva.
On TransliterationPreface: The Story of this BookKumar Gandharva U. R. Ananthamurtiiy Ananthamurtiiy, U. R. 1Introduction 9About the Texts and Translations 51About the CD 54The Songs 57Avsan / 'Passing Away' Byashok Vajpeyi Vajpeyi, Byashok 137Acknowledgements 145Bibliography 153
