Margaret E. Walker

India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317117377
• Artikelnr.: 45099292

Autorenporträt

Margaret E. Walker is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at Queen's University, Kingston, where she is currently serving as Director of the School of Music. Her research focuses primarily on kathak dance and its historiography, but also includes work on gender, class, diaspora, and colonialism.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Kathak dance today
Colonialism and nationalism
The Kathaks
In search of an ancient Kathak
Voices from the18th and 19th centuries
Hereditary performing communities in North India
More hereditary performers: the women
Nationalism and revival: the dance of the Kathaks
Classicization and curriculum: Kathak dance
Conclusion: a history of Kathak
Bibliography
Index.