Articoli correlati a Bharatanatyam: A Reader
A dynamic, living cultural practice of modern South Asia, Bharatanatyam is widely recognized as one of the world's fastest-growing dance forms. This reader brings together some of the most important essays on Bharatanatyam written over the last two hundred years. Drawing from history, dance studies, women's studies, religious studies, and ethnomusicology, this reader shows how this dance form has generated complex social histories and varied aesthetic practices. The comprehensive Introduction provides a broad understanding of the historical, socio-political, and aesthetic issues in Bharatanatyam alongside a contextual mapping of the sources.
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L'autore:
Davesh Soneji is Associate Professor of South Indian Religions in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Canada.
Contenuti:
- Introduction by Davesh Soneji
- PART I: DEVADASI DANCE: HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION-Representations of Dance in Colonial South India
- P. Ragaviah Charry / 'A Short Account of the Dancing Girls, Treating Concisely on the General Principles of Dancing and Singing, with the Translations of two Hindo Songs'
- Joep Bor / 'Mamia, Ammani and other Bayaderes: Europe's Portrayal of India's Temple Dancers'
- Community, Repertoire, and Aesthetics
- Saskia C. Kersenboom / 'The Traditional Repertoire of the Tiruttani Temple Dancers'
- Hari Krishnan / 'Inscribing Practice: Reconfigurations and Textualizations of Devadasi Repertoire in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century South India'
- Davesh Soneji / 'Salon to Cinema: The Distinctly Modern Life of the Telugu Javali'
- Anti-Nautch Revisited
- Muthulakshmi Reddi / 'Why Should the Devadasi Institution in the Hindu Temples be Abolished?'
- Madras Devadasis Association / 'The Humble Memorial of Devadasis of the Madras Presidency'
- Amrit Srinivasan / 'Reform or Continuity? Temple "Prostitution" and the Community in the Madras Presidency'
- Teresa Hubel / 'The High Cost of Dancing: When the Indian Women's Movement Went after the Devadasis'
- PART II: REINVENTING DANCE IN SOUTH INDIA-New Beginnings? Voices from Twentieth Century Madras
- V. Raghavan (Bhava Raga Tala) / 'Bharata Natya-Classic Indian Dance: The South Indian Sadir Nautch, The Recent Controversy Over the Art'
- Rukmini Devi Arundale / 'The Spiritual Background of Indian Dance'
- T. Balasaraswati / 'Bharata Natyam'
- Mathew Harp Allen / 'Rewriting the Script for South Indian Dance'
- Anne-Marie Gaston / 'Dance and the Hindu Woman: Bharatanatyam Re-ritualized'
- PART III: CONTEMPORARY EXTENSIONS
- Janet O'Shea / 'At Home in the World? The Bharatanatyam Dancer as Transnational Interpreter'
- Andrée Grau / 'Political Activism and South Asian Dance: The Case of Mallika Sarabhai'
- Anita Kumar / 'What's the Matter? Shakti's (Re)Collection of Race, Nationhood, and Gender'
- PART IV: DANCERS SPEAK: PERSONAL JOURNEYS TO AND FROM BHARATANATYAM
- Mrinalini Sarabhai / 'Creations'
- Avanthi Meduri / 'Bharatha Natyam: What Are You?'
- Shobana Jeyasingh / 'Getting Off the Orient Express'
- Chandralekha / 'Reflections on New Directions in Indian Dance'
- Ananya Chatterjea / 'Raga and Sloka: Troubling Femininity'
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
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- EditoreOUP India
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 0198083777
- ISBN 13 9780198083771
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine464
- RedattoreSoneji Davesh
- Valutazione libreria
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