Performers and Their Arts

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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Region
Anthropology
Bharata Natyam
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Classical Dance
Classical Dance Forms
Classical Indian Dance
Dance Form
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Folk Art Form
Folk tradition
Follow
Ganapati
Hometown
Indian People
Indian people's theatre association
IPTA
Make Up
Makeup
Natya Sastra
Political mobilisation
Popular Art Form
Rukmini Devi
Rukmini Devi Arundale
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Scheduled Caste
Solo Repertoire
Sunil
Uday Shankar
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415401135
  • Weight: 780g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 May 2006
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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
    6. Part II: Performance Beyond Caste

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

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

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.