Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr Ram is beside himself with

Ram is beside himself with grief and rage

sometimes infuriating

Yet scientists and mathematicians have spent generations searching the far reaches of the universe for that one elusive state—nothingness

Whilst struggling to cope with her grief

Wiest's words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming

Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr Ram is beside himself withAn ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and