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Talk · Loyola Marymount University, BCLA Yoga Studies · 2016Kirtan Parampara: Memory, Music and the Oral Tradition of Gurbani Sangeet
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Kirtan Parampara: Memory, Music and the Oral Tradition of Gurbani Sangeet

A full hour-long English lecture at Loyola Marymount University on how the Gurbani Sangeet tradition has been carried in memory and in the voice from one generation to the next.

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Gurbani Kirtan · Instrument Maker

Bhai Baldeep Singh

Sikh musician, musicologist and instrument maker, born in 1969, who works to bring back classical Gurbani kirtan: the scriptures sung in the ragas laid down for them. He descends from Bhai Sadharan, a disciple of Guru Nanak, in a long line of GurSikh masters of the tradition, and rebuilds by hand the string instruments it needs.

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