Name: Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India
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Author: Orsini Francesca,Butler Schofield Katherine
ISBN: 9781783741021

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Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Open Book Publishers

Author

Orsini Francesca,Butler Schofield Katherine

Language

English

Pages

566

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 2.9 cm

Weight

1.05

ISBN13

9781783741021

Synopsis "Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India"

Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling.

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