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Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / edited by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji.
Van Pelt Library PN2885.S6 P47 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Social aspects--India, South--History--20th century.
- Performing arts.
- Dance--Social aspects--India, South--History--20th century.
- Dance.
- Carnatic music--Social aspects--India, South--History--20th century.
- Carnatic music.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Dance--Social aspects.
- Performing arts--Social aspects.
- South India.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Revised version of seminar papers and contributed articles.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Canons and canonization. Embracing the canonical : identity, tradition, and modernity in Karnatak music / Lakshmi Subramanian
- Inscribing practice : reconfigurations and textualizations of Devadasi repertoire in nineteenth and early twentieth century South India / Hari Krishnan
- Standardize, classicize, and nationalize : the scientific work of the Music Academy of Madras, 1930-52 / Matthew Harp Allen
- pt. II. The local and the global : regional and national pasts. Temple stage as historical allegory in Bharatanatyam : Rukmini Devi as dancer-historian / Avanthi Meduri
- Serving two masters? : Bharatanatyam and Tamil cultural production / Janet O'Shea
- pt. III. Views from within : self-conscious reflections on tradition. Marabu, the inherent flexibility of the Karnatak tradition : the example of Bharatanatyam / Saskia Kersenboom
- In search of the guru : technology and authenticity in Karnatak music / Amanda Weidman
- Rewriting cultural history through the novel : music and dance as Tamil tradition in Kalaimani's Tillana mohanambal / Indira Viswanathan Peterson
- pt. IV. Identity, community, and resistance : imagining alternatives to tradition. Memory and the recovery of identity : living histories and the Kalavantulu of coastal Andhra Pradesh / Davesh Soneji
- One Kirttanai, three songs / Zoe C. Sherinian.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195690842
- 0195690842
- OCLC:
- 190396590
- Online:
- Publisher description
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