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Amit Chaudhuri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author, A Strange and Sublime Address, Sojourn; critic; singer, Indian classical tradition; composer:This Is Not Fusion, Found Music

11 books
Book Cover for: Good Vibrations: A Children's Picture Book, Brian Wilson

Good Vibrations: A Children's Picture Book

Brian Wilson
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

‘Good Vibrations’, incorporating ragas Kalavati and Abhogi - an attempt, through discrete rhythmic movements, to rework not only the song but what Brian Wilson called the idea of a ‘pop symphony’: https://t.co/NVnh05T7JY From the King’s Place concert: album release on Friday.

Hardcover, 2020

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Sojourn

Charles Meyers
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

This excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in @Harpers: https://t.co/wUXIQLRMn7 It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages. @NYRB_Imprints @FaberBooks @PenguinIndia https://t.co/wifdJpX2R9

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture, Amit Chaudhuri

Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture

Amit Chaudhuri
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

Wonderful essay on Finding the Raga in @prospect_uk by @ivanhewett, music critic of the Daily Telegraph: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-surprising-story-of-indian-classical-music Ivan’s reviewed me twice before - my essays in Clearing a Space, and a performance of mine at the Brecon Jazz Festival. Great to have his response here

Hardcover, 2008

$111.90$86.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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The Concert

Lindsay Anderson
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

(producer of Lindsay Anderson's Look Back in Anger, Derek Jarman's The Tempest; director in his own right) and incorporated into an essay-film of the same name. Besides the concert, it includes interviews, memories, and ruminations.

Paperback, 2018

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Book Cover for: Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears, Laszlo F. Foldenyi

Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears

Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

Choosing 'books of the year' for @Openthemag gave me a chance to write about László Földényi's Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears and Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: https://t.co/RYXPBXJuj5

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: Derrida: A Very Short Introduction, Simon Glendinning

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction

Simon Glendinning
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

Simon Glendinning’s talk at the 2017 ‘Literary Activism’ symposium on Reassessments: https://t.co/zJk41Gthx2 A reflection - via Marx and Derrida, in relation to Eurocentricism - on forms of self-critique that free us up to reassess what’s valuable in other cultures and our own.

Paperback, 2011

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Book Cover for: Grand Central Station: The History of New York City's Famous Railroad Terminal, Charles River

Grand Central Station: The History of New York City's Famous Railroad Terminal

Charles River
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

This excerpt, put together by an editor from various sections of Sojourn, is out in @Harpers: https://t.co/wUXIQLRMn7 It’s behind a paywall. I bought a copy yesterday from Grand Central Station and am sharing photos of the pages. @NYRB_Imprints @FaberBooks @PenguinIndia https://t.co/wifdJpX2R9

Paperback, 2015

$7.24$3.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music, Amit Chaudhuri

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

A conversation with the Hindustan Time’s Chintan Modi, in which we talked about Finding the Raga and North Indian classical music, but also about Paris and DH Lawrence: https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/interview-amit-chaudhuri-author-finding-the-raga-which-way-you-are-going-to-turn-is-unknown-to-you-101658501003996.html @htTweets @chintanwriting

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory, Enzo Traverso

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

Enzo Traverso
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

Choosing 'books of the year' for @Openthemag gave me a chance to write about László Földényi's Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears and Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: https://t.co/RYXPBXJuj5

Hardcover, 2017

$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot
Amit ChaudhuriAmit Chaudhuri

I’ve started writing a column for @nplusonemag called Footnotes, to tease out cultural history, personal memory, and meaning from a word, phrase, or line. In the first, I’m looking at ‘human kind cannot bear very much reality’ from Eliot’s Four Quartets: https://t.co/kig8Vn4zlx

Paperback, 2023

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