By Pallabi Chakravorty,Nilanjana Gupta
ISBN-10: 041555375X
ISBN-13: 9780415553759
This quantity offers a multidisciplinary point of view on dance scholarship and perform as they've got developed in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories were written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have replaced and are altering, and the way politico-economic shifts have formed Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written through eminent and emergent students and practitioners of Indian dance, the articles make dance a foundational socio-cultural and aesthetic phenomena that displays and affects upon a variety of cultural intercourses -- from artwork and structure to pop culture, and social justice matters. in addition they spotlight the interaction of varied frameworks: worldwide, nationwide, and local/indigenous for learning those varied functionality contexts, utilizing dance as a serious lens to examine present debates on nationalism, transnationalism, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial politics. on the performace point, a few articles query the approved divisions of Indian dance (‘classical’, ‘folk’, and ‘popular’) and critique the dominant values linked to classical dance varieties. ultimately, the ebook brings jointly either experiential and aim dimensions of physically wisdom via dance.
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Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages by Pallabi Chakravorty,Nilanjana Gupta
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