A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditional Tantric and Ayurvedic practices - Details the 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions - Offers emotional fasting exercises and daily routines for emotional well-being - Shows how Rasa Sadhana can b…
Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only affect, mood, and intuition, but also theories of musical perception and cognition, as well as meaning and expression in music.
""Elegant and provocative at turns, Benamou's account of emotion and value in Javanese music makes an immediate and much-needed contribution to a genuinely global musicology."--Jonathan P.J. Stock, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Sheffield" ""Marc Benamou not only su…
Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only affect, mood, and intuition, but also theories of musical perception and cognition, as well as meaning and expression in music.
""Elegant and provocative at turns, Benamou's account of emotion and value in Javanese music makes an immediate and much-needed contribution to a genuinely global musicology."--Jonathan P.J. Stock, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Sheffield" ""Marc Benamou not only su…
Reader on rasa: classical Indian aesthetics
A rasa reader: classical Indian aesthetics
From the early years of the Common Era to 1700, Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art. Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art's formal structures and broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales. Rasa, or taste…
A rasa reader: classical Indian aesthetics
From the early years of the Common Era to 1700, Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art. Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art's formal structures and broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales. Rasa, or taste…