Performing pasts

Peterson, Indira Viswanathan / Soneji, Davesh (Hrsg.):
Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / ed. by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji. - New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xi, 356 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-19-569084-2 / 0-19-569084-2
Rs. 695,00
US$ 39,60 (Bagchee)

Beschreibung
Performing Pasts discuses the interface of performing arts and modernity in South India. The essays illuminate, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the processes by which dance and music were re-constituted as classical traditions in the modern era.
   From the nineteenth century textualization of court dance repertoire to twentieth century Dalit Christian renderings of a Karnatak kirttanai, this volume critically examines the making and contestation of cultural categories related to the performing arts at specific socio-historical conjunctures. It demonstrates how inventions of tradition of South Indian music and dance were effected by continuous negotiations among agents of diverse caste, class, and gender affiliations with varying degrees of power and authority.
   Highlighting the role of multiple agents and cultural ideologies-Orientalism, colonialism, nationalism and globalization – this volume underlines the complex processes through which indigenous performing arts were recast as national symbol in modern South India. Interrogating the elitist project of the 'Classicization', it also documents the agency and voices of those who were marginalized or excluded. The introduction provides a concise and critical historical overview of South Indian classical music dance. The introduction provides a concise and critical historical overview of South Indian classical music and dance. [Vom Buchumschlag]

Inhlalt
List of illustrations. vii
Preface and Acknowledgements. ix
Note on Transliteration of Indian Terms. xiii
Introduction (Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji). 1
PART I: CANONS AND CANONIZATION
1. Lakshmi Subramanian: Embracing the Canonical: Identity, Tradition , and Modernity in Karnatak Music. 43
2. Hari Krishnan: Inscribing Practice: Reconfigurations and Textualizations of Davadasi Repertoire in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth century South India. 71
3. Matthew Harp Allen: Standardize, Classicize, and Nationalize: The Scientific work of the Music Academy of Madras, 1930-52. 90
PART II: THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL: REGIONAL AND NATURAL PASTS
4. Avanthi Meduri: Temple stage as Historical Allegory in Bharatnatyam: Rukmini Devi as Dancer-historian. 133
5. Janet O’shea: Serving Two Masters? Bharatanatyam and Tamil Cultural Production. 165
PART III: VIEWS FROM WITHIN: SELF CONSCIOUS REFLECTIONS ON TRADITION
6. Saskia Kersenboom: Marabu, the inherent Flexibility of the Karnatak Tradition: The Example of Bharatnatyam. 197
7. Amanda Weidman: In Search of the Guru: Technology and Authenticity in Karnatak Music. 225
8. Indira Viswanthan Peterson: Rewriting Cultural History through the Novel: Music and Dance as Tamil Tradition in Kalaimani’s Tillana Mohanambal. 252
PART IV: IDENTITY, COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE: IMAGINING ALTERNATIVES TO TRADITION
9. Davesh Soneji: Memory and the Recovery of Identity: Living Histories and the Kalavantulu of Coastal Andhra Pradesh. 283
10. Zoe C. Sherinian: One Kirttanai, Three Songs. 313
List of Indian Names and Terms. 349
List of Contributors. 355

Herausgeber
INDIRA VISWANATHAN PETERSON is David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, Asian Studies Program, Mount Holyoke College, USA. Faculty profile.
DAVESH SONEJI is Assistant Professor, South Indian Religions, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Canada. Faculty profile.

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Schlagwörter: Kunst; Südindien

Rückschau
Von Indira Peterson haben wir in Indologica bereits das folgende Werk erfaßt, an dem sie beteiligt war:
[02.11.2007] Selby / Peterson: Tamil Geographies