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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

By: Dr Margaret E Walker

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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

By: Dr Margaret E Walker

Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a different story of syncretic origins and hybrid history - it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Kathak's multiple roots can be found in rural theatre, embodied rhythmic repertoire, and courtesan performance practice, and its history is inextricable from the history of empire, colonialism, and independence in India. Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, Margaret Walker undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

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The St. Martin's Custom Reader

By: Lynn Z. Bloom,Bloom Smith,Louise Z. Smith,Dr Lynn Z Bloom, B A M a PH D,University Louise Z Smith

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The St. Martin's Custom Reader

By: Lynn Z. Bloom,Bloom Smith,Louise Z. Smith,Dr Lynn Z Bloom, B A M a PH D,University Louise Z Smith

The St. Martin's Custom Reader enables instructors to create their own readers -- readers that truly reflect the content and goals of their courses and the interests and needs of their students. Based on the most exhaustive study ever conducted of the reading selections that have actually been taught in freshman composition (Lynn Z. Bloom's "Essay Canon" research, College English, March 1999) -- The St. Martin's Custom Reader makes available the essays that have proven most teachable for first-year writing courses. With a database of approximately 240 classic and contemporary essays, The St. Martin's Custom Reader can be created easily online at the Bedford/St. Martin's Web site, www.customreader.bedfordstmartins.com.

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0312399812

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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

By: Dr Margaret E Walker

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