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Gandharvi: Life of A Musician (Record no. 526822)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9788125064237 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | pbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 780.92 |
| Item number | JAY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Jayita Sengupta |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Gandharvi: Life of A Musician |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Jayita Sengupta and Bani Basu |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Orent Blackswan |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Place of publication | Hyderabad |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xix, 267 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Gandharvi: Life of a Musician, by the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novelist Bani Basu (and translated by English scholar Jayita Sengupta), tells the story of Apala, a gifted singer of Hindustani classical music. She was born into an old, middle-class family of limited means in north Calcutta. To her family, her music meant little, as it did not fit their idea of ‘respectability’. Her husband ‘chose’ her after hearing her sing at a public concert, yet her marital life proved loveless. Her in-laws were insensitive and exploitative. Her children grew up learning to ignore their mother’s music. Shorn of freedom, love and, above all, music, Apala’s life moved towards a tragic end.<br/><br/>Surrounding Apala’s story are the interlinked lives of other practitioners of music and classical art, like Soham, Mitul, Rameshwar Thakur, Dipali and Shekharan. Their lives intersected with Apala’s in ways that profoundly affected all of them. Written in lilting prose that draws on the idioms of Hindustani classical music, Gandharvi is also musical in its form, where in the end the movement of music and the life story of Apala become one and the same. A thinly veiled depiction of the classical music scene of Calcutta in the 1960s, this modern Bengali classic is also a celebration of the indomitable spirit of music. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Music - Novel |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 6TH FLOOR, B WING | 08.05.2024 | 780.00 | 780.92 JAY | 684347 | 22.08.2024 | English Books | ||||
| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 6TH FLOOR, B WING | 08.05.2024 | 780.00 | 780.92 JAY ; 1 | 684348 | 22.08.2024 | English Books |