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Dance in Thumri

Author : Projesh Banerji

Publisher : Abhinav Publications

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 27,77 MB

Release : 1986

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9788170172123

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The Book Narrates The Story Of The Sad, Rather Step-Motherly Treatment Meted Out By Orthodox Musicians To Thumri-Especially Their Castigation Of Thumri As A Dance Form. Such Apathy And Castigation Stem From A Colonial Milieu And The Education That Went With It. For All Practical Purposes Not Only Is The Thumri S Dance Portion Too Often Totally Ignored, But It Is Even Considered Superfluousl. The Author Impresseson The Reader The Close Link Between The Dance And The Music. Such At Least Was The Indissoluble Union Of Style In The Past. The Author Hopes That The Book Will Correct This Disturbed Relationship. As Such The Work Is Of Immense Artistic Importance.



Movement in Stills

Author : Reena Shah

Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 10,91 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Art

ISBN : 9788188204427

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I Can Never Say I Was Born To Dance, She Says With A Subtle Hint Of Pride. Yet For This Very Reason, Kumudini Lakhia Went On To Become One Of The Great Modern Innovators Of North Indian Classical Dance. Though She Studied Kathak Throughout Her Life, Her



The Idea of Dance

Author : Guru Pandit Shyamal Maharaj

Publisher : Notion Press

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 48,42 MB

Release : 2021-12-30

Category : Art

ISBN : 1685097952

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The Idea of Dance is a culmination of Kathak Guru Pandit Shyamal Maharaj’s five-decade-long career as star performer and then beloved Guru to thousands of students. An alumnus of Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, and Kathak Kendra, New Delhi, Pandit Shyamal Maharaj has developed a unique style of Kathak, based on the Lucknow Gharana. This book exemplifies the Guru–Shishya parampara as the renowned Guru shares his in-depth knowledge of dance through it with students of Indian classical dance based in India and abroad. The Idea of Dance is based on the syllabus provided by Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh, and various universities and is meant for students from Prarambhik Part I to those in their Seventh Year of Indian classical dance as well as for all others who have a deep interest in Indian classical dance and wish to acquire knowledge about it.



Tawaifnama

Author : Saba Dewan

Publisher : Context

Page : 804 pages

File Size : 42,85 MB

Release :

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9395073594

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About the Book A NUANCED AND POWERFUL MICROHISTORY SET AGAINST THE SWEEP OF INDIAN HISTORY. Dharmman Bibi rode into battle during the revolt of 1857 shoulder to shoulder with her patron lover Babu Kunwar Singh. Sadabahar entranced even snakes and spirits with her music, but eventually gave her voice to Baba Court Shaheed. Her foster mothers Bullan and Kallan fought their malevolent brother and an unjust colonial law all the way to the Privy Council—and lost everything. Their great-granddaughter Teema paid for the family’s ruination with her childhood and her body. Bindo, Asghari, Phoolmani, Pyaari … there are so many stories in this family. And you—one of the best-known tawaifs of your times—remember the stories of your foremothers and your own. This is a history, a multi-generational chronicle of one family of well-known tawaifs with roots in Banaras and Bhabua. Through their stories and self-histories, Saba Dewan explores the nuances that conventional narratives have erased, papered over or wilfully rewritten. In a not-so-distant past, tawaifs played a crucial role in the social and cultural life of northern India. They were skilled singers and dancers, and also companions and lovers to men from the local elite. It is from the art practice of tawaifs that kathak evolved and the purab ang thumri singing of Banaras was born. At a time when women were denied access to the letters, tawaifs had a grounding in literature and politics, and their kothas were centres of cultural refinement. Yet, as affluent and powerful as they were, tawaifs were marked by the stigma of being women in the public gaze, accessible to all. In the colonial and nationalist discourse of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this stigma deepened into criminalisation and the violent dismantling of a community. Tawaifnama is the story of that process of change, a nuanced and powerful microhistory set against the sweep of Indian history.



Ṭhumrī in Historical and Stylistic Perspectives

Author : Peter Manuel

Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 48,6 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Music

ISBN : 9788120806733

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As thumri moved from the courtesan salon to the Public concert hall, its style and image changed drametically in accordance with the evolving aesthetic of its new bourgeois patrons. Thumri in Historical and stylistic perspectives constitutes a welcome and significant contribution to the study of Hindustani music and south Asian culture in general.





Dancing Women

Author : Usha Iyer

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 43,28 MB

Release : 2020-10-02

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0190938757

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Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms cinema and dance historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, sexuality, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the book considers the "women's question" via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women. Some of the central figures animating this corporeal history are Azurie, Sadhona Bose, Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit, and Saroj Khan, whose performance histories fold and intersect with those of other dancing women, including devadasis and tawaifs, Eurasian actresses, oriental dancers, vamps, choreographers, and backup dancers. Through a material history of the labor of producing on-screen dance, theoretical frameworks that emphasize collaboration, such as the "choreomusicking body" and "dance musicalization," aesthetic approaches to embodiment drawing on treatises like the Natya Sastra and the Abhinaya Darpana, and formal analyses of cine-choreographic "techno-spectacles," Dancing Women offers a variegated, textured history of cinema, dance, and music. Tracing the gestural genealogies of film dance produces a very different narrative of Bombay cinema, and indeed of South Asian cultural modernities, by way of a corporeal history co-choreographed by a network of remarkable dancing women.



AKASHVANI

Author : All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi

Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi

Page : 47 pages

File Size : 35,1 MB

Release : 1973-08-26

Category : Antiques & Collectibles

ISBN :

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"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 26 AUGUST, 1973 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 47 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXXVIII. No. 35 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 11-45 ARTICLE: 1.The Long Arm of Peking's Diplomacy 2. Premarital Relations in our Society 3. Problem of Safety in Air Travel 4. Zoological Curios 5. Lib- the War of Words 6. Mouth Cancer 7. Anti-Corruption Drive in Bihar AUTHOR: 1.Mira Sinha 2. Prasannakumar Abhyankar 3. K. Subramanian 4. Peter Cochran 5. Manju Lal 6. Dr. A. M. Malaowalla 7. S. K. Chatterjee KEYWORDS : 1. China,NATO,CENTO,Diplomatic Relations 2. India,Natural Attraction,Family Planning,Ghotul 3. Ministry of Civil Aviation,London,Federation,Stake in Safety 4. Zoo,Patrick Porker,England,Elephants 5. Manuscripts,Lib,Revolutions,Confused Battle 6. Cancer,India,Tobacco,Cigarette 7. Anti-corruption Department,Bihar,Provident Fund,Vigilance Department Document ID : APE-1973 (J-O) Vol-I-09 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.



INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE

Author : Kapila Vatsyayan

Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 31,12 MB

Release :

Category :

ISBN : 8123029578

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India is a pioneer in Performing arts. This books deals with five classical dance forms of india in detai, viz., Bharatanatyam,Kathakali,orissi,manipuri and Kathak.



The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Author : Alison Arnold

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1126 pages

File Size : 40,67 MB

Release : 2017-09-25

Category : Music

ISBN : 1351544381

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Book Description

In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.