Finding The Raga Av Amit Chaudhuri

<p><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**</b><br><br>By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, <i>Finding the Raga </i>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.<br><br>Tracing the music¿s development, <i>Finding the Raga </i>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.<br><br><b>''Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation and insight, Amit Chaudhuri¿s <i>Finding the Raga</i> immerses us in the rigorous beauty and cosmology of Indian classical music. It is also a lov