This volume brings together some of the most important writings in English onBharatanatyam, one of the world's fastest-growing dance forms, and highlightsthe heterogeneous, sometime contradictory, voices in Bharatanatyam as it has evolved over the last two centuries. INDICE: Introduction by Davesh Soneji ; SECTION I: DEVADASI DANCE: HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION-Representations of Dance in Colonial South India P. Ragaviah Charry 'A Short Account of the Dancing Girls, Treating Concisely on the General Principles of Dancing and Singing, with the Translations of two Hindo Songs' o Joep Bor 'Mamia, Ammani and other Bayaderes: Europe's Portrayal of India's Temple Dancers'; Community, Repertoire, and Aesthetics Saskia Kersenboom'The Traditional Repertoire of the Tiruttani Temple Dancers' o Hari Krishnan 'Inscribing Practice: Reconfigurations and Textualizations of Devadasi Repertoire in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century South India' o Davesh Soneji 'Salon to Cinema: The Distinctly Modern Life of the Telugu Javali' o Anti-Nautch Revisited Muthulakshmi Reddi. 'Why Should the Devadasi Institution in the Hindu Temples be Abolished?' o Madras Devadasis Association. 'The Humble Memorial of Devadasis of the Madras Presidency' o Amrit Srinivasan. 'Reform or Continuity? Temple 'Prostitution' and the Community in the Madras Presidency' o TeresaHubel. 'The High Cost of Dancing: When the Indian Women's Movement Went afterthe Devadasis' o ; SECTION II: REINVENTING DANCE IN SOUTH INDIA-New Beginnings? Voices from Twentieth Century Madras V. Raghavan [Bhava Raga Tala]. 'Bharata Natya Classic Indian Dance, The South Indian Sadir Nautch: The Recent Controversy Over the Art' o Rukmini Devi Arundale. 'The Spiritual Background of Indian Dance' o T. Balasaraswati. 'Bharata Natyam' o Mathew Harp Allen. 'Rewritingthe Script for South Indian Dance' o Anne-Marie Gaston. 'Dance and the Hindu Woman: Bharatanatyam Re-ritualized' ; SECTION III: CONTEMPORARY EXTENSIONS- Janet O'Shea. 'At Home in the World? The Bharatanatyam Dancer as Transnational Interpreter' o Andrée Grau. 'Political Activism and South Asian Dance: The Caseof Mallika Sarabhai' o Anita Kumar. 'What's the Matter? Shakti's (Re)Collection of Race, Nationhood and Gender' ; SECTION IV: DANCERS SPEAK: PERSONAL JOURNEYS TO AND FROM BHARATANATYAM-Mrinalini Sarabhai. 'Creations' o Avanthi Meduri. 'Bharatha Natyam: What Are You?' o Shobana Jeyasingh. 'Getting Off the Orient Express' o Chandralekha. 'Reflections on New Directions in Indian Dance' o Ananya Chatterjea. 'Sri: Feminist Visions for a Powerful Future' and 'Raga and Sloka: Troubling Femininity' o Acknowledgements
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806539-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 462
- Fecha Publicación: 25/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés