Kathak Dance Microform A Critical History

Author : Margaret Edith Walker
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612944732
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Kathak Dance [microform] : a Critical History written by Margaret Edith Walker and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. Its repertoire and movement vocabulary show its syncretic origins---it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Histories of kathak dance, however, claim that it began as a temple dance, originally performed by a clan of Brahman storytellers called Kathaks who recounted the Hindu epics with expressive gestures. The dance is still largely disseminated by hereditary dance families from the Kathak caste, who are said to have preserved the ancient form while migrating to the Muslim courts. Difficulties arise, however, when one attempts to discover the early form of kathak and to trace its development through the courts. The history of kathak, as it has been written until now, contains numerous gaps, contradictions and paradoxes. Through a broad yet in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources, ethnography and iconography, this dissertation undertakes a critical examination of the history of kathak as it exists in publications and popular knowledge, calls many of the accepted "facts" into question, and hypothesizes a different account. In the process of dismantling the accepted version, which promotes a past which is not only specifically male and Hindu, but also linear, I uncover a web of closely related traditions which only combined in the early twentieth century to form a dance called kathak.

Author : Margaret E. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317117360
Total Pages : 191 pages
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Download or read book India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective written by Margaret E. Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a different story of syncretic origins and hybrid history - it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Kathak's multiple roots can be found in rural theatre, embodied rhythmic repertoire, and courtesan performance practice, and its history is inextricable from the history of empire, colonialism, and independence in India. Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, Margaret Walker undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

Author : Rachna Ramya
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ISBN 13 : 9789386906885
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Author : Margaret Edith Walker
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612944732
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kathak Dance [microform] : a Critical History written by Margaret Edith Walker and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. Its repertoire and movement vocabulary show its syncretic origins---it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Histories of kathak dance, however, claim that it began as a temple dance, originally performed by a clan of Brahman storytellers called Kathaks who recounted the Hindu epics with expressive gestures. The dance is still largely disseminated by hereditary dance families from the Kathak caste, who are said to have preserved the ancient form while migrating to the Muslim courts. Difficulties arise, however, when one attempts to discover the early form of kathak and to trace its development through the courts. The history of kathak, as it has been written until now, contains numerous gaps, contradictions and paradoxes. Through a broad yet in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources, ethnography and iconography, this dissertation undertakes a critical examination of the history of kathak as it exists in publications and popular knowledge, calls many of the accepted "facts" into question, and hypothesizes a different account. In the process of dismantling the accepted version, which promotes a past which is not only specifically male and Hindu, but also linear, I uncover a web of closely related traditions which only combined in the early twentieth century to form a dance called kathak.

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