Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia

Craftspeople and Performers
Herausgeber: Morcom, Anna; Raina, Neelam

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood and will contribute to Ethnomusicology, Crafts and Design, Economic Anthropology, (Historical) Sociology and (Historical) Economics, Cultural History, Human Geography, and Creative Industries and Economies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138492172
• ISBN-10: 1138492175
• Artikelnr.: 71634835

Autorenporträt

Anna Morcom is the Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. She studies the performing arts of India and Tibet from diverse perspectives analysing shifting configurations of social power and has published on courtesans, bar girls, queer performers, and classical musicians in India. Neelam Raina is an Associate Professor of International Development and Design at Middlesex University London. Her grant-funded research focusses on conflict and post-conflict economic reconstruction, material cultures, indigenous knowledge, displacement, and gender. Her interest lies in intersectional inequalities and inequities in fragile settings.

Inhaltsangabe

Creative Vocabularies of Work and Value in South Asia: A Foreword; Living,
Adapting, and Creating: Craftspeople and Performers in South Asia: A
Foreword; Introduction Living, Adapting, and Creating: Craftspeople and
Performers in South Asia; Chapter 1. Musical Unfreedom and the Drummers'
Dilemma: Cultural Labour and the Value of Music in Indian Caste Society;
Chapter 2. U¿aippu: Performance as Labour in a Tamil Theatre Tradition;
Chapter 3. Narratives of Craft and Power in Sindh, Pakistan; Chapter 4.
Artistic Labour at Stake: The Case of South Indian Courtesans' Changing
Patterns of Professionalism in Colonial and Post-Colonial India; Chapter 5.
Women, Crafts and Landscapes; Acknowledging Cultural Rights for Sustainable
Development; Chapter 6. The Performance of Payment: Differentiating
Devotional, Erotic and Classical Performing Arts in India; Chapter 7.
Materializing Insurgency: Walnut-Wood Carving and the Material Culture of
Conflict; Chapter 8. The Tawa'if in Colonial India: Changing Livelihoods
and Emerging Technologies (1790s - 1920s); Chapter 9. Remaking Labouring
Lives through Crisis: Artisan Weaponsmiths in Colonial North India; Chapter
10. Court Music Outside the Court: Defining the 'Professional' Musician in
Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Chapter 11. The Hand in the Song: Understanding
Performative Labour, Gender, and Livelihood in the Arts of Chitrakar Women
of West Bengal; Chapter 12. Kashmir's Crafts Women: Tacit, Embodied
Knowledge and its value in Post Conflict Reconstruction; Chapter 13.
Kanchipuram as Brand Value: Weaving, Marketing Tradition in South India;
Chapter 14. Drumming, Value, and Patronage in a Himalayan Village Economy;
Chapter 15. Globalities and Temporalities of Artisanship: Lessons from an
Indian Wood Art Industry; Chapter 16. The Gramophone, The Concert Stage and
the Hindustani Musician as Commodity-Fetish; Chapter 17. The Business of
Kollywood Dance in Chennai, India; Chapter 18. Surviving Revivals: Or Why
the Work of Resuscitating Indian Crafts is Never Done; Index