Mapping Critical Dance Studies in India (eBook)

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
XXV, 285 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-981-99-7359-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a critical understanding of dance studies in India, bringing together various embodied practices identified loosely as dance. It suggests an alternative reading of the history of patronage, policies, and institutionalized understanding of categories such as classical, folk, modern, popular, and Bollywood that hierarchizes some dances as 'more' dance than others. It is of great interest to scholars looking at performing arts such as dance as a tool for identity assertions. It offers diverse possibilities of understanding dance through its inherent sociopolitical possibilities as a participatory or presentational tool for communication. The multidisciplinary approach brings together perspectives from critical dance studies, anthropology, history, and gender studies to connect embodied archives of different communities to create an intersectional methodology of studying dance in India as a powerful but marginal expressive art practice. Accessible at multiple levels, thecontent is relevant for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers across dance, dance education, theatre, and performance studies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia
• Zusatzinfo: XXV, 285 p. 37 illus., 5 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Caste, Religion and Contemporary Identities • Dance in the Global South • Dance Practices in India • Interdisciplinary Arts and Aesthetics • performance studies
• ISBN-10: 981-99-7359-7 / 9819973597
• ISBN-13: 978-981-99-7359-0 / 9789819973590