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A dynamic, living cultural practice of modern South Asia, Bharatanatyam is widely recognized as one of the world's fastest growing dance forms. This reader brings together some of the most important essays on Bharatanatyam written over the last two hundred years.Drawing from history, dance studies, anthropology, women's studies, religious studies, and ethnomusicology, this volume shows how Bharatanatyam has generated complex social histories and varied ...
Performing Pasts discusses the interface of performing arts and modernity in South India. The essays illuminate, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the processes by which dance and music were re-constituted as classical traditions in the modern era. From the nineteenth century textualization of court dance repertoire to twentieth century Dalit Christian renderings of a Karnatak kirttanai, this volume critically examines the making and contestation of ...