Cultural Labour

Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India

Dr Brahma Prakash (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2019
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-949081-3 (ISBN)

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Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to see? Can such performances challenge social hierarchies and ensure justice in a caste-ridden society?

In Cultural Labour, the author studies bhuiyan puja (landworship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana: he examines various ways in which meanings and behaviour are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, the author looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts. Based on an extensive ethnography and the author's own life experience as a member of such a community, the book offers a new conceptual framework to understand the politics and aesthetics of folk performance in the light of contemporary theories of theatre and performance studies.

Brahma Prakash is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His works focus on the regional theatre and performance traditions of India and South Asia with relation to the questions of marginality, aesthetics and cultural justice.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Translation, Transliteration, and Transcription

Introduction
Historiography: Performance between Traces and Trashes
Landscape: Drumming the Land in Bhuyan Puja
Materiality: Bidesia against Erasure and Displacement
Viscerality: Have Guts to Perform Dugola
Performativity: Public and Hidden Transcipts in Resma-Chuharmal
Choreopolitics: Reclaiming Cultural Labour in the Act of Gaddar and Jana Natya Mandali
Conclusion

Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2019
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 220 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-949081-3 / 0199490813
ISBN-13	978-0-19-949081-3 / 9780199490813
Zustand	Neuware