The spiritual and the political at times merge together in formation of powerful voice protest quest social harmony. This is also seen Newari cultural landscape. hymns present that collective imagination poetically transcends beyond earthly domain control authority structures, revolting against prevalent order. paper studies two historical “Shitala Maju” “Bijaya Laxmi” from perspective resistan...

Review of the book: Maria B. Pavlova. A Son Shiva. The Life and Hymns Early Medieval Tamil Saint Sambandar as a Part Bhakti Movement in Southern India. Moscow: Ganga Publishing House, 2022. 468 pp. (ill.). ISBN 978-5-907432-55-0 (in Russian).

Music is generally associated with the artistic expression of emotions, but it is clear that reason plays an important role in music making. For example, the ability to recognise musical patterns and to make structural abstractions and associations requires sophisticated memory mechanisms, involving the conscious manipulation of concepts and subconscious access to intuitive knowledge. One of th...