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Titolo: | Dance matters : performing India / / editors, Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta |
Pubblicazione: | New Delhi, : Routledge, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
Disciplina: | 792.80954 |
Soggetto topico: | Dance - Social aspects - India |
Dance - India | |
Altri autori: | ChakravortyPallabi GuptaNilanjana |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; I Can the Subaltern Dance?; 1 Dancing Off-stage: Nationalism and its "Minor Practices" in Tamil Nadu; 2 Another Time, Another Space - Does the Dance Remain the Same?; 3 Folk Culture in Front of Serious Challenge: A Case Study on the Tribes of North Bengal; 4 The Problematics of Tradition and Talent in Indian Classical Dance; 5 Dance as Healing: Kolkata Sanved; II Globalization of Indian Dance; 6 The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage |
7 Negotiating Identity: Dance and Religion in British Hindu Communities8 Local/Global Histories of Bharatnatyam; III Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded; 9 It Matters For Whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory; 10 Manipuri Dance: A Lyrical Manifestation of Devotion; 11 Swayed by Love: Dance in the Vaishnava Temple Imagery of Bengal; 12 Remixed Practice: Bollywood Dance and the Global Indian; IV The Gendered Dancing Body; 13 The Daring Within: Speaking Gender through Navanritya | |
14 Re-Exporting "Tradition": The Transcultural Practice of Kathak in Kolkata and the Creation of a New Female Body15 The Lords of Dance: Changing Fortunes; V Alternative Histories; 16 The Politics of Memory: The Rise of the Anti-Hero in Kathakali; 17 Guru Surendranath Jena: Subverting the Reconstituted Odissi Canon; 18 Courtesans and Choreographers: The (Re)Placement of Women in the History of Kathak Dance; About the Contributors; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent scholars and practitioners of Indian dance, the articles make dance a foundational socio-cultural and aesthetic phenomena that reflects and impacts upon various cultural intercourses -- from art and |
Titolo autorizzato: | Dance matters |
ISBN: | 1-136-51612-3 |
1-280-66487-8 | |
9786613641809 | |
0-203-15045-7 | |
1-136-51613-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828106003321 |
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