# Finding the Raga

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- Authors: [Amit Chaudhuri](https://www.bookquiver.com/amit-chaudhuri)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-06-7008-992-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2024-06-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.