Studies In Indian Folk Culture
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Author | : Rana Nayar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351570366 |
This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it explores themes such as caste, indigenous peoples, vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area, this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory, literature, history, cultural anthropology, sociology, and media and mass communication, as well as the general reader.
Author | : Sankar Sen Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Hermann Bausinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Brahma Prakash |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2019-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199095841 |
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 (land worship), 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.
Author | : K. Moti Gokulsing |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134023073 |
This book explores India’s rich popular culture and provides illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. It is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies.
Author | : Sahdev Luhar |
Publisher | : N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2023-02-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 8195500846 |
Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.
Author | : Simi Malhotra |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811552541 |
This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning the consumption, representation and mediation of food. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on food fads; food representation; the symbolic valence of food; modes and manners of resistance articulated through food. Investigating consumption practices in both public and ethnic culture, each chapter introduces a fresh approach to food across diverse literary and cultural genres. The book offers a highly readable guide for researchers and practitioners in the field of literary and cultural studies, as well as the sociological fields of food studies, body studies and fat studies.
Author | : Henry Glassie |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1971-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780812210132 |
"Filled with brilliant insights and tantalizing leads."--
Author | : Alan Gledhill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : Peter Manuel |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1993-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226504018 |
In Cassette Culture, Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium—the portable cassette player—caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, quality, and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of dissemination and consumption. Manuel shows that the cassette revolution, however, has brought new contradictions and problems to Indian culture. While inexpensive cassettes revitalized local subcultures and community values throughout the subcontinent, they were also a vehicle for regional and political factionalism, new forms of commercial vulgarity, and, disturbingly, the most provocative sorts of hate-mongering and religious chauvinism. Cassette Culture is the first scholarly account of Indian popular music and the first case study of a technological revolution now occurring throughout the world. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in modern India, communications theory, world popular music, or contemporary global culture.