An Ethnomusicological Study of the Mahadevji ka byavala as Performed by the Nath-Jogis of Alwar
by
John Napier
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the Nath-Jogis, sing stories of kings who renounce their thrones to become wandering mendicants. They also sing of a god, Mahadeva, Shiva, who must abandon his world-renouncing life and marry, thus establishing the very caste that tells his...