Kuchipudi

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520301668
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impersonations written by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588225
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre written by James R. Brandon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.

Author : Aakriti Sinha
Publisher : Star Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788176500975
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Know Dances of India written by Aakriti Sinha and published by Star Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information About Various Dances Of India With Colourful Pictures

Author : Tulasi Srinivas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438495293
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder in South Asia written by Tulasi Srinivas and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of wonder—encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication—and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women's charitable practices, Kipling's Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.

Author : Marami Medhi
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 935780420X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kathak Volume-1 A Theoretical & Practical Guide written by Marami Medhi and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2022-09-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be helpful for Prathama, Madhyama of Bhatkhande Sangit Vidyapith, Praveshika, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year of Prayag Sangit Samiti, Prayagraj, Surnandan Bharati, Kolkata, Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh, Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Pune along with 9th and 10th Board. I hope it benefits the budding talents of Classical dance of Kathak.

Author : R P Meena
Publisher : New Era Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Culture and Heritage of India written by R P Meena and published by New Era Publication. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Culture of India: Useful for UPSC Civil Services and State Public Service Commission and other competitive examinations Meant for aspirants of UPSC & State PSC Civil Services Preliminary and Main Examination, this book covers the syllabus of Indian Art, Heritage and Culture for General Studies Paper I. A wide ranged knowledge base of the Indian, Art, paintings, music, dance and architecture has been presented which will arouse the reader’s interest and help students to prepare for the examinations. Indian Art, Culture, Heritage and Architecture for UPSC Civil services examination. Art and Culture of India Book Indian Art & Culture Must Read Notes/Book UPSC IAS Prelims Exam 2020: General Studies Paper-I State PSC Prelims and Mains Exam Art & Culture Notes #artandculture #artandcultureindia #indianartandculture #upsciasexam #upscprelims #statepscexam #exampreparation #bookforgk #generalstudies #generalknowledge #heritageofindia #indianarchitecture #prelimsbook #iasprelimsexamnotes #civilservicesexam2020 #nitinsinghaniabook

Author : Ramdevsinh Jadeja
Publisher : Ramdev Jadeja
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art & Culture written by Ramdevsinh Jadeja and published by Ramdev Jadeja. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the syllabus of Indian Heritage and Culture for General Studies Paper I. A wide ranged knowledge base of the Indian, Art, paintings, music and architecture has been presented with the help of several pictures and diagrams which will arouse the readers interest. The content is also supported with a plethora of questions that will help students to prepare for the examination.

Author : Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Prof. E. Siva Nagi Reddy, Prof. K. Krishna Naik
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalyana Mitra: Volume 5 written by Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Prof. E. Siva Nagi Reddy, Prof. K. Krishna Naik and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V, ART: This volume contains 47 articles by scholars of Art History, representing various aspects of art. It covers the topics like the Buddhist narrative art and Buddha’s iconography with reference to Amaravati school of Art, Jaina Art, Terracotta art, Iconography of Siva, Vishnu, Surya, Mahishasuramardhini, Ganesa, Kartikeya, Dikpalas and Navagrahas and a few articles on Kuchipudi dance and folk art forms. This volume serves as a valuable source book for the students, research scholars and teachers as well in the fields. This volume also highlights the love and affection of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy enjoys in the intellectual world. The felicitation Volume is brought out in a series of 12 independent books covering a total of 460 articles. Every volume contains two sections. The first section contains the biographical sketch of Prof.P.Chenna Reddy, his achievements and contribution to archaeology, history and Society. The second section of each volume is subject specific, E.g., Volume-I on Archaeology, Volume II on Early and Medieval Indian History, Volume III on Modern Indian History, Volume IV on Epigraphy and Numismatics, Volume V on Art, Volume VI on Architecture, Volume VII on Religion and Philosophy, Volume VIII on Economy, Trade and Commerce, Volume IX on Literature, Volume X Tribalore and Folklore, Volume XI Contemporary India and Diaspora, Volume XII, Tourism .and contains as many as 460 articles and contributed by renowned scholars.

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824894103
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mimetic Desires written by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, performance artists, and ritual participants, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world. This volume defines impersonation as the temporary assumption of an identity or guise in social and aesthetic performance that is perceived as not one’s own, and guising as sartorial and kinetic play more generally. Interrogating the legitimacy of the purported dialectic between the “real/original” and “fake/dupe,” Mimetic Desires refutes the ordering of identity along the lines of a binary or dichotomy that presupposes the myth of an original identity. By peeling back the layers of performative masks to reveal the process of the masquerade itself, we can see that those with the most social capital are often those with the most power and opportunities to impersonate “up” and “down” social hierarchies. The book’s twelve chapters disclose sites and processes of sociopolitical power facilitated by normative markers of social status relating to race, ethnicity, gender, caste, class, and religion—and how those markers can be manipulated to express and enhance individual and group power. The first comprehensive study to focus on impersonation in South Asia, Mimetic Desires expands on previous scholarship on impersonation and guising in vernacular theatre, dance, public processions, and religious rituals. It is particularly in conversation with the robust scholarship on gender performance in South Asia’s theatrical and dance forms. Mimetic Desires explores some of the contexts and forms of impersonation in South Asia, with its remarkable array of performing arts, to gain insight into the very human and quotidian practices of impersonation and guising.

Author : Lavanya Vemsani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 161069211X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture written by Lavanya Vemsani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krishna is a central figure in Hinduism, a religion that has been a fundamental force for thousands of years. This accessible encyclopedia covers texts, practices, scholarship, and arts related to Krishna from the earliest known sources on. As Eastern religions and related practices such as yoga become increasingly popular, there is a need for resources that explain where these practices come from and what they mean. This is one of those works. Krishna is central to Hindu philosophy, theology, art, architecture, and literature, and an understanding of Krishna will give students greater understanding of the role of Hinduism around the world. Yet this isn't just a book on religion. The encyclopedia also provides insights into Indian and world history and into contemporary concerns, fostering respect for religious and cultural diversity. Entries on a wide range of subjects related to Krishna cover India and other places where major Krishna religious centers and temples are established worldwide. Articles draw from classical Indian sources dating back as far as 1300 BCE and from folk and worldwide literature, including mythology from Jainism and Buddhism. The book's alphabetical organization, cross references in each entry that highlight related entries and further readings, and topical and thematic lists will facilitate in-depth research.