Guru's journey : Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian classical dance in diaspora / Sarah Morelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morelli, Sarah, author.

Series:

Music in American life.

Illinois scholarship online.

Music in American life

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kathak (Dance)--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History.

Kathak (Dance).

East Indians--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Social life and customs.

East Indians.

Das, Chitresh.

India.

California--San Francisco Bay Area.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Summary:

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts. A Guru's Journey provides an ethnographic study of the dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Das. Sarah Morelli, a kathak dancer and one of Das's former students, investigates issues in teaching, learning, and performance that developed around Das during his time in the United States. In modifying kathak's form and teaching for Western students, Das negotiates questions of Indianness and non-Indianness, gender, identity, and race.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Note on transliteration and pronunciation

Note on names and honorifics

Note on musical notation

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Encountering the dance

Chapter 2. Dancing history

Chapter 3. On the American stage

Chapter 4. Teaching in a new country

Chapter 5. Dancing gender

Chapter 6. Dancing unity, articulating difference

Chapter 7. Form and freedom in kathak performance

Chapter 8. Coming full circle

Notes

Appendix : Persons interviewed by the author

Glossary of terms

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9780252051722

0252051726

OCLC:

1134622722