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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri (Hardcover, 2021)

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A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from 'one of his generation's best writers' ( Guardian ). 'Chaudhuri's languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all.'.

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'Chaudhuri's languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all.' - Salman Rushdie By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be. Tracing the music's development, Finding the Raga dwells on its most distinctive and mysterious characteristics: its extraordinary approach to time, language and silence; its embrace of confoundment, and its ethos of evocation over representation. The result is a strange gift of a book, for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration.