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Seagull Books Singers Die Twice A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad by Peter Pannke
Singers die twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known Exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, perer pannke has travel Ed from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, darbhanga, and the forests of vrindaban to study classical Indian singing in the most famous gharanas—musical houses—of India. His richly woven story takes readers from the legendary beginning of the gharana in the eighteenth century into the last splendid days of the Maharaja of darbhanga—the inspiration for Satyajit Raya 1957 classic film, the music room—and into the present.