India's Kathak dance in historical perspective /
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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Publishing Limited,
[2014].
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Colección: | SOAS musicology series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Kathak dance today
- Colonialism and nationalism
- The Kathaks
- In search of an ancient Kathak
- Voices from the eighteenth and nineteenth 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.