Dance Matters (eBook, PDF)

Performing India on Local and Global Stages
Redaktion: Chakravorty, Pallabi; Gupta, Nilanjana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and rewritten, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts shaped Indian dance's negotiation with modernity.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136516139
• Artikelnr.: 38269948

Autorenporträt

Pallabi Chakravorty is Assistant Professor, and Acting Director of Dance Program, Swarthmore College, U.S.A. Nilanjana Gupta is Professor of English, and Director, School of Media Communication & Culture, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Pallabi Chakravorty & Nilanjana Gupta PART I Can the
Subaltern Dance 1. Dancing off-stage: Nationalism and its 'Minor Practices'
in Tamil Nadu by Kalpana Ram 2. Another Time, Another Space...Does the
Dance Remain the Same? by Urmimala Sarkar-Munshi 3. Folk Culture in Front
of Serious Challenge: A Case Study on the Tribes of North Bengal by Samar
Biswas & Somnath Bhattacharjee 4. The Problematics of Tradition and Talent
in Indian Classical Dance by Sreeparna Ghosal 5. Dance for Recovery,
Healing, and Rehabilitation: Kolkata Sanved Way by Sohini Chakraborty PART
II Globalization of Indian Dance 6. The Ownership of Indian Classical
Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage by Mandrakanta Bose 7.
Negotiating Identity: Dance and Religion in British Hindu Communities by
Ann David 8. Local/Global Histories of Bharatnatyamy by Payal Ahuja PART
III Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded 9. It Matters For Whom You Dance:
Audience Participation in Rasa Theory by Uttara Coorlawala 10. Manipuri
Dance: A Lyrical Manifestation of Devotion by Sruti Bandhopadhyayay 11.
Swayed by Love: Dance in the Vaishnava Temple Imagery of Bengal by Pika
Ghosh 12. Remixed Practice: Bollywood Dance and the Global Indian by
Pallabi Chakravorty PART IV The Gendered Dancing Body 13. The Daring
Within: Speaking Gender through Navanritya by Aishika Chakraborty 14.
Re-Exporting 'Tradition': The Transcultural Practice of Kathak in Kolkata
and the Creation of a New Female Body by Monica Dalidowicz 15. The Lords of
Dance: Changing Fortunes by Vikram Iyengar PART V Alternative Histories 16.
The Politics of Memory: the Rise of the Anti-hero in Kathakali by Mundoli
Narayan 17. Guru Surendranath Jena: Subverting the Reconstituted Odissi
Canon by Alessandra Lopez Royo 18. Courtesans and Choreographers: The
(Re)Placement of Women in the History of Kathak Dance by Margaret Walker