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Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India

Autor Brahma Prakash
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 2019
Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to see? Can such performances challenge social hierarchies and ensure justice in a caste-ridden society?In Cultural Labour, the author studies bhuiyan puja (landworship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana: he examines various ways in which meanings and behaviour are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, the author looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts. Based on an extensive ethnography and the author's own life experience as a member of such a community, the book offers a new conceptual framework to understand the politics and aesthetics of folk performance in the light of contemporary theories of theatre and performance studies.
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ISBN-13: 9780199490813
ISBN-10: 0199490813
Pagini: 332
Ilustrații: NA
Dimensiuni: 147 x 220 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: OUP INDIA
Colecția OUP India
Locul publicării:Delhi, India

Recenzii

Cultural Labour challanges the notion that art and labour are two relatively autonomous undertakings.
A fresh perspective

Notă biografică

Brahma Prakash is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His works focus on the regional theatre and performance traditions of India and South Asia with relation to the questions of marginality, aesthetics and cultural justice.