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Book Review: "Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music" by Matthew Rahaim

Submitted by Nadia Chana on October 21, 2013 - 3:50pm

Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music. By Matthew Rahaim. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012. [xvii, 182 p. ISBN 9780819573261. $24.95.]

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