Kirtan!: Chanting As a Spiritual Path - Softcover

Johnsen, Linda; Jacobus, Maggie

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9780936663432: Kirtan!: Chanting As a Spiritual Path

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ISBN 10: 093666343X ISBN 13: 9780936663432

Publisher: Yes Intl Pub, 2007

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Kirtan has recently arrived in the West, carried by brilliant singers and musicians, creating a new musical movement that s turned yogic chanting into a cultural phenomenon. This book interviews eight of America s top Kirtan singers, Krishna Das, Deva Premal, Bhagavan Das, Snatam Kaur, Ragani, Jai Uttal, Dave Stringer, Wah.

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About the Author:

Linda Johnsen is a long-time student of religious philosophy and spirituality and an initiate in the Shaktavaita Tradition. She holds degrees in Eastern and Western Psychology, and has post-graduate training in theology and Sanskrit. She has traveled to India and lived with women saints. She is a writer for several spiritual magazines and a contributor to several anthologies, including The Divine Mosaic: Women s Images of the Sacred Other. Linda is also author of Yes Publishers' Daughters of the Goddess: Women Saints of India, The Living Goddess: Reclaiming the Tradition of the Mother of the Universe, and A Thousand Suns. Linda resides in California. Maggie Jacobus has spent years delving into the transforming power of sacred sound. In this book she shares her avid research, study and practice of kirtan. A certified sound healer, singer in a kritan band, and a founding board member of the International Kirtan Foundation, Maggie is also the author of more than 7i magazine and newspaper articles on alternative heath and wellness. She is a contributing reporter for The New York Times and is the executive producer of a children s nature program.

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Linda Johnsen has done it again. This time with help from Maggie Jacobus. The two writers have interviewed eight of the most popular kirtan singers in the West today and have them sharing intimate stories about their life work. The authors first take care to let us know that the Sanskrit word kirtan means singing, chanting, and praising the Divine and that it s a sacred practice anyone can do no special training is required. Then their history of Indian spiritual music shows us the background of chanting, the use of mantras in song, and the love that the art of kirtan brings to hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. --Helen Fedro, Himalayan Path, Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 2007

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