Performers and Their Arts

ISBN 10: 0415401135 / ISBN 13: 9780415401135

Published by Routledge India, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performers and Their Arts
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415401135
• ISBN 13: 9780415401135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Introduction Part I: Caste, Community and performance

1. A ritual performance of Kerala, Vayala Vasudevan Pillai
2. The Patuas of Bengal, Makbul Islam
3. Bards and goddesses: The Pombalas in Tirupati, Anand Akundy
4. Explorations in the art forms of the Cindu madigas in Andhra, Y A Sudhakar Reddy and R R Harischandra
5. Caste identity and performance in a fisher-village of Assam, Kishore Bhattacharjee

Part II: Performance Beyond Caste

6. Telugu pady natakam in Andhra: Performance dynamics, P Subbachary
7. Modernising tradition: The yaksagana in Karnataka, Guru Rao Bapat
8. Kalarippayatt as aesthetics and the politics of invisibility in Kerala, P K Sasidharan
9. India People’s Theatre Association in colonial Andhra, V Ramakrishna
10. Gaddar and the politics and pain of singing, D Venkat Rao
11. Reviving moghal tamsa in Orissa, Sachi Mohanty

Part III: Classical Dance and its Successors

12. New directions in Indian dance, Sunil Kothari
13. Transpositions in kuchipudi dance, Aruna Bhikshu
14. The impact of commercialization in dance, K Subadra Murthy
15. Art addressing social problems, Ananda Shankar Jayant

About the Author

Simon Charsley taught Anthropology and Sociology at Glasgow University, Scotland for over twenty years. Author of several books on East Africa, Scotland and India, his current research is on performing artists of Andhra Pradesh (India) and their cultural significance.

Laxmi N. Kadekar teaches Sociology at the University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests, which are the subject of the books and articles he has authored, include urban sociology, rural development, the Indian diaspora, and demographic change.