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"This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarṇapūra, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Caitanya Vaiṣṇava poets and theologia…
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…
With reference to billboard paintings of Tamil motion picture
This study focuses on the ways in which various forms of embodied performances—dramatic, devotional, ritual, and dancing—engender bhāva in South Asia. Bhāva is variously understood as a mode of being, an emotional change, a disposition, a mode of distributed experience in relati…
Rasa, in a Javanese musical context, has many meanings that range from "affect," "feeling," and "inner meaning" to "perception," "understanding," and "intuition." Musicians use the word and its synonyms ubiquitously in evaluating music, and in describing what good performers and…
