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Singers Die Twice
A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Peter Pannke
“Singers Die Twice” is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, Peter Pannke has traveled from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, Darbhanga, and the forests of Vrindaban to study classical Indian singing in the most famous gharanas – musical houses – of India. His richly woven story takes readers from the legendary beginning of the gharanas in the eighteenth century into the last splendid days of the Maharaja of Darbhanga, and into the present.