Re- Scribing tradition Modernisation of South Indian Dance- Drama
Description
This book is about the process of culture change and the way we make the past meaningful for the present, through a process that is termed ‘Re-scribing’ in this book.
It studies four traditional dance drama forms of South India: Yakshagana of Karnataka, Kathakali of Kerala, Terukuttu of Tamil Nadu and Kuchipudi of Andhra. All these are performance genres that have a history of several centuries. All of them have also undergone a deep process of change, in the past-several decades. But each has charted a different course in its process of change. Closely analyzing the changes that have taken place in these forms over the past several decades the author demonstrates how our conception of tradition becomes a ‘construct’. We restructure, recreate the past, in ways that we consider relevant from the stand point of the present. The author locates and studies these changes in the context of not merely aesthetic but also social, political and even economical pressures operating on each form. Different forces have been in operation before and after independence and have played a major role in deciding the direction of change.
The author has made use of the concept of ‘Re-scribing’ to analyse the process of change. This gives us a new insight for understanding the traditional forms, and how each form and each society has negotiated with the challenges of modernity.
Features
- : Re- Scribing tradition Modernisation of South Indian Dance- Drama
- : Guru Rao Bapat
- : 9788179860939
- : 2012
- : ix+154 pp., illus
- : English
