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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797972603321

Titolo

Scripting dance in contemporary India / / edited by Maratt Mythili Anoop and Varun Gulati ; contributors C. Rajendran [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-0552-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

793.3/1954

Soggetti

Dance - India - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Representations: Dance/Dancers in Literature; 1 The Sacred and the Profane; 2 The Indian Nautch Girl in Early Colonial Travel Writing; Part II: Histories in Process: Stories of Traditions and Travel; 3 Unraveling Mohiniyattam's "Outlaw"; 4 Building a Natya Shastra; 5 "Thidambu Nritham"; 6 Araimandi and Arabesque; Part III: Negotiations: Aesthetics and the Dynamics of Globalization; 7 Changing Landscape of Dance in South India; 8 Dancing Narratives; 9 Working through the "Difficult Whole"; 10 Picturing Dance; Part IV: Othered Voices and Bodies

11 Listening to "Women of God"Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Scripting Dance in Contemporary India is an edited volume that engages with multiple dance forms of India and their representations. The contributions are eclectic, including writings by both scholars and performers who share their experiential knowledge.