{"id":280,"date":"2010-11-15T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krishnakantshukla.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:42:37","slug":"devotional-music-of-india-songs-of-the-saint-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krishnakantshukla.org\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Devotional Music of India: Songs of the Saint-Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/krishnakantshukla.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kkshukla-medium.jpg?ssl=1\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"Dr. Krishnakant Shukla\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/krishnakantshukla.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kkshukla-medium.jpg?resize=133%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dr. Krishnakant Shukla\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Krishnakant Shukla <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #444444; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">Devotional Music of India: Songs of the Saint-Poets<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong>sung by<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"SlideObj\">\n<div>\n<div><strong>Dr. Krishnakant Shukla<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">on tour from Varanasi, India<\/div>\n<div><strong>Wednesday, November 17, 07:15 p.m. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><strong> <\/strong><strong>Venue: Building 420, room 50 (lower level)\u00a0, Stanford University<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Further info: \u00a0lionda@stanford.edu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/krishnakantshukla.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stanford_concert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Flyer<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Free &amp; Open to the Public<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: left;\">KRISHNAKANT SHUKLA While teaching Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor in upstate New York, Dr. Shukla decided to quit academics and follow his heart and soul deep into the fathomless waters of Indian Classical Music. Having studied with great maestros like Srimati Laxmi Shankar, Ustaad Ali Akbar Khan, and Dr. Tapan Bhattacharya, he returned to India in 1994 to explore the roots of Indian Classical Music in the great living oral folk traditions. His musical search led him into remote villages in the Himalayan foothills, as well as far flung and difficult to reach dwellings in the central plains. He has been particularly influenced by the songs of Kabir, Gorakhnath, and other nirguna bhakti poet-saints\u2014songs that have been sung as part of a living oral tradition that is over six hundred years old.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr. Shukla\u2019s repertoire includes compositions of Tyagaraja, Tulsidas, Surdas, Meera, Tukaram, Purandardas and other poet-saints of India, as well as the musical compositions of Sufi saints. He has also been researching, recording and performing the folk songs of rural northern India, which, according to him, is an art form of unparalleled beauty which is fast becoming extinct.<\/div>\n<div>Dr. Shukla has performed widely in India and is currently touring the U.S. He has been recognized as a singer of devotional music by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, an agency of the central government that supports artists to represent India culture abroad. More details are there on the website www.krishnakantshukla.org<\/div>\n<div>This program is presented in association with Religious Studies 159, &#8220;Music &amp; Religion in South Asia.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><a title=\"Download Flyer\" href=\"https:\/\/krishnakantshukla.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/stanford_concert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Flyer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devotional Music of India: Songs of the Saint-Poets sung by Dr. Krishnakant Shukla on tour from Varanasi, India Wednesday, November 17, 07:15 p.m. Venue: Building 420, room 50 (lower level)\u00a0, Stanford University Further info: \u00a0lionda@stanford.edu Download Flyer Free &amp; Open to the Public KRISHNAKANT SHUKLA While teaching Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor in 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