Finding the Raga

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.