| Description |
1 online resource (332 pages) |
| Contents |
Historiography: performance between traces and trash -- Landscape: drumming the land in bhuiyan puja -- Materiality: bidesia against erasure and displacement -- Viscerality: guts to perform dugola -- Performativity: public and hidden transcripts in the play of Reshma-Chuharmal -- Choreopolitics: reclaiming cultural labour in the act of Gaddar and Jana Natya Madnali |
| Summary |
An ethnographic field study of five Indian subaltern performance genres that propose a new way of understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and labour in the Indian social context, especially in relation to caste. The five performance traditions examined are bhuiyan puja (land worship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), reshma chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singer duels) and the performances of Gaddar and Jana Natya Mandali covering both north and south India, with a focus on the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2019 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Performance art -- India
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Folk art -- India.
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Folk art
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Manners and customs
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Performance art
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
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| Subject |
India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199095841 |
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0199095841 |
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9780199095858 |
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019909585X |
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