The Devadasi and the Saint
Author: V. Sriram
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788188661701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of a Carnatic musician and folk theater actress from Karnataka.
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Author: V. Sriram
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788188661701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of a Carnatic musician and folk theater actress from Karnataka.
Author: Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788120803305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book the author has first investigated the concept of the devadasi as found in the cultural history of South India, especialy in Tamil Nadu. Hereafter the function and form of the devadasi tradition are examined within the Temple Ritual of Tamil Nadu. This is not the study of the fact of the devadasi tradition, but of its meaning and the mode of production of that meaning.
Author: Pushpesh Kumar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1000415880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores existing and emerging sexual cultures of contemporary India and the predicaments faced by abjected and sexual marginalities. It traces the sexual politics within popular culture, literary genres, advertisement, consumerism, globalizing cities, social movements, law, scientific research, the Hijra community life, (alternative) families and kinship and sites that define the cultural other whose sexual practices or identities fall beyond normative moral conventions. The chapters examine a range of connected sociological and political issues including questions of agency, judgments around intimate sexual relationships, the role of the state, popular understandings of adolescent romance, notion of legitimacy and stigma, moral policing and resistance, body politics and marginality, representations in popular and folk culture, sexual violence and freedom, problems with historiography, structural inequalities, queer erotica, gay consumerism, Hijra suicides and marriage and divorce. The volume also proposes certain transformative possibilities towards envisioning and (re)scripting sexual equalities. This interdisciplinary book will be important for those interested in sexuality studies, queer studies, gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history, literature and Global South studies as well as policymakers, civil society activists and nongovernmental organizations working in the area.
Author: Douglas M. Knight
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0819569062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century
Author: Muddu Paḷani
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0143417436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Davesh Soneji
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-01-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0226768090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author: Mr. P. Abubakkar Sithique
Publisher: My Authors Hub
Published:
Total Pages: 323
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes meticulous research papers that focus on literature and culture. This research proceeding paints the reality of life in a cultural overview. This collection has been brought out by the Department of English, st Joseph College of Arts and Science, Vaikalipatti, Mettur, Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu, India. Research papers were contributed by participants from more than 8 states in India and more than 12 districts in Tamilnadu. UG students, PG students, M. Phil scholars, PhD scholars, NET aspirants, faculty members and academicians have contributed to this book. This book is an outcome of the Two Days National Conference on 'Revisiting Literature through Culture', conducted on 21&22 September, 2023. By all means, it will remain a treasure of reference for the forthcoming researchers and enthusiasts.
Author: Ileana Citaristi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1000780988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state of Odisha in relation to its history, religious cults, art, and literature and to link the development of the various aspects to the role played over the centuries by the Geeta Govinda poem in its different manifestations. From being an important component of the rituals performed in the Jagannath Temple to becoming an essential part of the people’s daily lives and artistic expressions, this immortal poem has exercised its influence on the cultural landscape of the state from its early inception in the twelfth century until present times. Religious beliefs, visual representations, performative expressions, and literary compositions have been influenced by the strong emotional appeal contained in its verses. Its musical structure, spiritual underline and histrionic content have been an essential font of inspiration in the process of the rediscovery of a cultural identity during the last century and continue to exercise a strong influence on the performing arts of the present times. Among all the art forms, the classical style of Odissi dance, the way it has been re-structured in the middle of the last century, is perhaps the one which bears the closest contact with the poem, almost being synonymous with it. The dance’s lyrical quality and its emotional appeal steeped in a long history of association with devotional and spiritual values make it an ideal form of visual expression for the literary content of the poem.
Author: Veejay Sai
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2022-09-12
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9354926800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, an internationally renowned Carnatic musician from the illustrious musical lineage of composer Saint Tyagaraja, wore many hats in his lifetime. Having made a stage debut at the age of seven, he was hailed as a child prodigy. From then till the time he passed away, at age eighty-six in 2016, he continued to be in the spotlight, not just for his extraordinary talent and versatility as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, but as a composer, playback singer and even, briefly, as a character actor. He was a primary school dropout, a teenage poet and composer, a restless mind, a polyglot, a legacy upholder, a wordsmith, an ice cream lover and a pathbreaker. This is a story of the many lives of Dr Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna. Veejay Sai's in-depth research into his life and work led him deep into unseen archival material and across the Carnatic musical landscape of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Fortified by interviews with his family members, disciples and peers, The Many Lives of Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, a definitive biography of the musical genius, is not only a revealing account of the personal traits and facets of an unparallelled genius, but is also a portrait of India's classical music world, a place as much of beauty as of untrammelled egos.
Author: Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1000084469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938), considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India, as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern, secular form of entertainment in the city space.