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The dancing body

labour, livelihood and leisure
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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi & Aishika Chakraborty
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Year: 2025
Publisher: London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Series: Routledge South Asian history and culture series
Media group: Buch
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This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the context of dance in India. It brings together emerging discourses around dance and the body that have become central in the Indian nation-state. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

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Statement of Responsibility: edited by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi & Aishika Chakraborty
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2025
Publisher: London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Works included: Preface Introduction: The dancing body: labour, livelihood and leisure 1. Becoming a body - 2. Artistic labour in dance and painting: revisiting the theory-practice debate via mimesis (Anukrti) and the abject body, 3. Folk dance/vulgar dance: erotic lavani and the hereditary performance labour 4. Calcutta cabaret: dance of pleasure or perversion? - 5. The erotic power of the dancer: labour of the erotic and the bodies of the sensory in the Arkestra of North, 6. The phantom of history: figurations of the dancing body and the ‘Sitara Devi problem’ of Indian cinema 7. Disco flamboyance, performative masculinities and dancer heroes of Bengali cinema, 8. Choreographing the queer: Visual and textual stimuli in Mandeep Raikhy’s dance-making process 9. The body and the contagion: a symbiosis of yoga, dance, health and spirituality, 10. The award-wapsi controversy in India and the politics of dance
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ISBN: 9781032776224
Description: viii, 178 Seiten, Illustrationen
Series: Routledge South Asian history and culture series
Tags: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General; Tanz; Aufsatzsammlung; Indien; India; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Cultural studies; Dance; Kulturwissenschaften
Participating parties: Search for this character Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar (editor); Chakraborty, Aishika (editor)
Language: Englisch
Media group: Buch