The volume explores the musical cosmology of the Santal tribes of India. It tries to understand the manner in which the Santal people perceive sound and the extent to which the acoustic environment influences their behaviour in different socio-cultural contexts. Bearing reference to their classification of sounds into three, i.e., sade (produced by different objects as a result of collision or stroke), aran (created by human beings, or produced from musical instruments constituting the bases of its subdivision into the ror, and rar, respectively) and rak (produced by animals, birds and insects), it delves into Santal vocabulary on sound and the manner in which their musical cosmology relates to their understanding of nature and the world in which they thrive.
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