Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Butler Schofield, Katherine (Editor), Orsini, Francesca (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2015
Subjects:
Online Access:DOAB: download the publication
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

MARC

LEADER 00000naaaa2200000uu 4500
001 doab_20_500_12854_26929
005 20210210
003 oapen
006 m o d
007 cr|mn|---annan
008 20210210s2015 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d
020 |a OBP.0062 
020 |a 9781783741021 
040 |a oapen  |c oapen 
024 7 |a 10.11647/OBP.0062  |c doi 
041 0 |a eng 
042 |a dc 
072 7 |a JF  |2 bicssc 
100 1 |a Butler Schofield, Katherine  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Orsini, Francesca  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Butler Schofield, Katherine  |4 oth 
700 1 |a Orsini, Francesca  |4 oth 
245 1 0 |a Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India 
260 |b Open Book Publishers  |c 2015 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (566 p.) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
506 0 |a Open Access  |2 star  |f Unrestricted online access 
520 |a 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. 
540 |a Creative Commons  |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  |2 cc  |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
546 |a English 
650 7 |a Society & culture: general  |2 bicssc 
653 |a north india 
653 |a storytelling 
653 |a oral performances 
653 |a improvisation 
653 |a pakistan 
653 |a social identity 
653 |a texts 
653 |a Mughal Empire 
653 |a Raga 
653 |a Sanskrit 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31247/1/633773.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31247/1/633773.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31247/1/633773.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31247/1/633773.pdf  |7 0  |z DOAB: download the publication 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26929  |7 0  |z DOAB: description of the publication