Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781032084107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Tina K. Ramnarine

Opis

Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora provides fascinating examples of dance and music projects across the Indian Diaspora to highlight that decolonisation is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one.

Spis treści

1. Dance, music and cultures of decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora: towards a pluralist reading Tina K. Ramnarine 2. Dancing the rainbow nation as it bleeds: the Surialanga Dance Company in post-apartheid South Africa Smitha Radhakrishnan 3. Music competitions, public pedagogy and decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago Christopher L. Ballengee 4. The BBC Young Dancer and the decolonising imagination Magdalen Gorringe 5. Decolonising Indian classical dance? Projects of reform, classical to contemporary Sitara Thobani 6. Gender, new creativity and Carnatic music in London Jasmine Hornabrook 7. Decolonising moves: gestures of reciprocity as feminist intercultural performance Priya Srinivasan 8. Decolonising human exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction Prarthana Purkayastha

O autorze

Tina K. Ramnarine is a musician, anthropologist and global cultural explorer. She has published widely, including Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora (2007), Musical Performance in the Diaspora (Routledge, 2007), and Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency (2018).