Elsewhere, songs track movement itself: young men leaving with the dry-season wind, rivers in flood separating families. Along cold North Sea coasts, herring workers, known as the "gutters," sang ...

Anusuyabai Pandekar and her daughter-in-law Mandabai sit facing each other beside a stone grindmill. The mill is still. No grain rests between its stones. No flour gathers at the edges. Instead it ...