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A refreshingly humanistic ethnomusicology in which the awareness of people making music is not forsaken for the sake of the music itself. (Peter Manuel, John Jay College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York) Capwell lucidly describes the singing style of the Bauls.... [This book] is indeed a valuable study of the recent past, a fine study of the music of the Bauls of West Bengal. (Anwarul Karim, Kushtia Islamic University)

"""A refreshingly humanistic ethnomusicology in which the awareness of people making music is not forsaken for the sake of the music itself."" (Peter Manuel, John Jay College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York) ""Capwell lucidly describes the singing style of the Bauls.... [This book] is indeed a valuable study of the recent past, a fine study of the music of the Bauls of West Bengal."" (Anwarul Karim, Kushtia Islamic University)"""

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Charles Capwell was on the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for thirty years. A former editor of Ethnomusicology, he is the author of The Music of the Bauls and coauthor of Excursions in World Music.

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