7: Music and Devotion in North India
Richard Widdess visits Vrindaban, where Krishna is said to have lived, and hears temple chants and classical dhrupad singing; a composition by the 16th-century
Princess Mirabai; a devotional song by Ghandi; a Sikh kirtan, a hymn in which the devotee assumes the role of a bride waiting for union with the groom; and a qawwali from Pakistan.