Dāphā: Sacred singing in a South Asian city. Music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal
(2013)
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Widdess, R. (2013). Dāphā: Sacred singing in a South Asian city. Music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315258515
Dāphā, or dāphā bhajan, is a genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional singing, performed by male, non-professional musicians of the farmer and other castes belonging to the Newar ethnic group, in the towns and villages of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The s... Read More about Dāphā: Sacred singing in a South Asian city. Music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal.