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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SOAS Studies in Music SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (174 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781409449515
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: India's Kathak Dance in Historical PerspectiveDDC classification:
  • 792.809
LOC classification:
  • GV1796.K38 -- .W35 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Citations, Diacriticals and Italics -- 1 Kathak Dance Today -- 2 Colonialism and Nationalism -- 3 The Kathaks -- 4 In Search of an Ancient Kathak -- 5 Voices from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 6 Hereditary Performing Communities in North India -- 7 More Hereditary Performers: The Women -- 8 Nationalism and Revival: The Dance of the Kathaks -- 9 Classicization and Curriculum: Kathak Dance -- 10 Conclusion: A History of Kathak -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Citations, Diacriticals and Italics -- 1 Kathak Dance Today -- 2 Colonialism and Nationalism -- 3 The Kathaks -- 4 In Search of an Ancient Kathak -- 5 Voices from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 6 Hereditary Performing Communities in North India -- 7 More Hereditary Performers: The Women -- 8 Nationalism and Revival: The Dance of the Kathaks -- 9 Classicization and Curriculum: Kathak Dance -- 10 Conclusion: A History of Kathak -- Bibliography -- Index.

Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry 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.

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