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oapen-20.500.12657-312472022-04-26T12:19:31Z Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India Butler Schofield, Katherine Orsini, Francesca north india storytelling oral performances improvisation pakistan social identity texts Mughal Empire Raga Sanskrit bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general "Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling." 2017-07-01 23:55:55 2018-08-08 11:56:31 2020-04-01T13:28:32Z 2020-04-01T13:28:32Z 2015 book 633773 OCN: 923571546 9781783741021 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31247 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 633773.pdf http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/311 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0062 10.11647/OBP.0062 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9781783741021 European Research Council (ERC) ScholarLed 566 263643 FP7 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) open access
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"Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling.
Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling."
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