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Tolpava Koothu

Author : Ji Vēṇu
Publisher : Hope India Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tolpava Koothu written by Ji Vēṇu and published by Hope India Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A form of traditional puppetry from Kerala, Tolpava Koothu--originating in the Bhagavati temples of Palghat district--presents the Ramayana story as told by Kambar, the Tamil epic poet, in the kamba Ramayana. In 21 parts, over 21 evenings, the story is enacted in koothumadmas or temple theatres before eager local audience. Part ritual, part instruction, and a form of entertainment inseparable from rural life in Kerala, Tolpava Koothu is an art demanding knowledge of the scriptures together with skill in delivery, diction, and puppet manipulation. This monograph provides a basic introduction to the Tolpava Koothu--setting out its cultural background, associated rituals, as well as specifics of stage, illumination, music, puppets and their manipulation, a day-wise synopsis of the story as presented in 21 parts, select scenes from Tolpava Koothu, lists of puppets and temples where the art is practiced help to bring alive the subject to the reader

Inside the Drama-House

Author : Stuart Blackburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520202066
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Drama-House written by Stuart Blackburn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-05-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the skill and physical stamina of the shadow puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic all night for as many as ten weeks during the festival season. The fact that these performances often take place without an audience forms the starting point for Blackburn's discussion which also explores the broader theoretical issues of text, interpretation, and audience.

Chinese Shadow Theatre

Author : Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773531971
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Shadow Theatre written by Fan-Pen Li Chen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.

Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821322
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions written by Arjun Appadurai and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.

Puppetry and Lesser Known Dance Traditions of Kerala

Author : Ji Vēṇu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Puppetry and Lesser Known Dance Traditions of Kerala written by Ji Vēṇu and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of folk theatre and dancing.

Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects

Author : John Bell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522939
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects written by John Bell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-04-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives. Puppets and masks are central to some of the oldest worldwide forms of art making and performance, as well as some of the newest. In the twentieth century, French symbolists, Russian futurists and constructivists, Prague School semioticians, and avant-garde artists around the world have all explored the experimental, social, and political value of performing objects. In recent years, puppets, masks, and objects have been the focus of Broadway musicals, postmodernist theory, political spectacle, performance art, and new academic programs, for example, at the California Institute of the Arts.This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives. The topics include Stephen Kaplin's new theory of puppet theater based on distance and ratio, a historical overview of mechanical and electrical performing objects, a Yiddish puppet theater of the 1920s and 1930s, an account of the Bread and Puppet Theater's Domestic Resurrection Circus and a manifesto by its founder, Peter Schumann, and interviews with director Julie Taymor and Peruvian mask-maker Gustavo Boada. The book also includes the first English translation of Pyotr Bogatyrev's influential 1923 essay on Czech and Russian puppet and folk theaters. Contributors John Bell, Pyotr Bogatyrev, Stephen Kaplin, Edward Portnoy, Richard Schechner, Peter Schumann, Salil Singh, Theodora Skipitares, Mark Sussman, Steve Tilllis

Quarterly Journal

Author : National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Journal written by National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nangiar Koothu, the Classical Dance Theatre of the Nangiar-s

Author : Nirmmalāpaṇikkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Nangiar Koothu, the Classical Dance Theatre of the Nangiar-s written by Nirmmalāpaṇikkar and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition

Author : Aaron Sherraden
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839984716
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition written by Aaron Sherraden and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (early centuries CE), Śambūka was practicing severe acts of austerity to enter heaven. In engaging in these acts as a Śūdra, Śambūka was in violation of class- and caste-based societal norms prescribed exclusively by the ruling and religious elite. Rāma, the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa epic, is dispatched to kill Śambūka, whose transgression is said to be the cause of a young Brahmin’s death. The gods rejoice upon the Śūdra’s death and restore the life of the Brahmin. Subsequent Rāmāyaṇa poets almost instantly recognized this incident as a blemish on Rāma’s character and they began problematizing this earliest version of the story. They adjusted and updated the story to suit the expectations of their audiences. The works surveyed in this study include numerous works originating in Hindu, Jain, Dalit and non-Brahmin communities while spanning the period from Śambūka’s first appearance in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa through to the present day. The book follows the Śambūka episode chronologically across its entire history—approximately two millennia—to illuminate the social, religious, legal, and artistic connections that span the entire range of the Rāmāyaṇa’s influence and its place throughout various phases of Indian history and social revolution.

Ethnomusicology

Author : Jennifer Post
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136705198
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Ethnomusicology written by Jennifer Post and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Indian Puppets

Author : Sampa Ghosh
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 817017435X
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Indian Puppets written by Sampa Ghosh and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puppetry Originated In India And Travelled Across The Seven Seas To The Eastern And Western World As Vouched By Many Scholars. Puppets Dated Back To A Period Well Before Bharata S Natya Shastra And Have Continued Unabated Throughout The Centuries In Almost All Indian States. Puppetry Is One Enduring Form, Which Has Entertained Masses And Educated People. The Famous Puppeteers Of Rajasthan Are Really Acrobats, Who Only Put On Puppet Shows When They Move Out Of Villages. These And A Thousand Other Scintillating Facts Come Out Of This Exciting Book For The Reader S Entertainment And Elucidation. Puppets Are By No Means For Only Children, -- As The Puppeteers Of Orissa Sing And Dance About The Romantic Love Of Radha And Krishna, And Keralan Puppets Narrate Kathakali Stories In The Same Make-Up And Costumes.The Book Aims At Giving A Connected Account Of The Indian Puppets: Their Variety, Their Multiple Functions, Their Craft, Their Animation And Their Connections With Other Related Arts In Five Separate Parts. The Book Also Contains For The First Time In Any Book On Puppetry -- Four Important Appendices: Museums In India Containing Puppets, Directory Of Indian Puppeteers, Global Bibliography On Puppets And A Relevant Glossary. The World Of Indian Puppets Is Seen In Vivid Colours With Scores Of Coloured Photographs And Many Line-Drawings And Half-Tone Pictures --- In Their Many-Sided Splendour: Variety Of The Glove, Rod, String, Shadow, And Human Puppets And A Myriad Background Stories Of The Puppet-Masters And Their Imaginative Landscape Of Free Creativity.

The Puppetry Yearbook

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Puppetry Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia

Author : Arjun Raina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000213765
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia written by Arjun Raina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia. A rigorous analysis and detailed documentation of the teaching of multiple learners in Melbourne, both in the group workshop mode and one-on-one, combined with the author’s ethnographic research in India, leads to a unique insight into what the author argues persuasively is at the heart of the art’s aesthetic- a practical realisation of the theory of rasa as first articulated in the ancient Sanskrit treatise on drama The Natyashastra. The research references the latest discoveries in neuroscience on ‘mirror neurons’ and argues for a reconceptualization of Kathakali’s imitative methodology, advancing it from the reductive category of ‘mimicry’ to a more contemporary and complex mirroring which is where its value lies in Australian actor performer training. The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and dance, intercultural actor training, practice-led research, and interdisciplinary studies of neuroscience and performance.

The India Magazine of Her People and Culture

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The India Magazine of Her People and Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance

Author : Dassia N. Posner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317911717
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance written by Dassia N. Posner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as a theatrical object but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline. This Companion looks at puppetry and material performance from six perspectives: theoretical approaches to the puppet, perspectives from practitioners, revisiting history, negotiating tradition, material performances in contemporary theatre, and hybrid forms. Its wide range of topics, which span 15 countries over five continents, encompasses: • visual dramaturgy • theatrical juxtapositions of robots and humans • contemporary transformations of Indonesian wayang kulit • Japanese ritual body substitutes • recent European productions featuring toys, clay, and food. The book features newly commissioned essays by leading scholars such as Matthew Isaac Cohen, Kathy Foley, Jane Marie Law, Eleanor Margolies, Cody Poulton, and Jane Taylor. It also celebrates the vital link between puppetry as a discipline and as a creative practice with chapters by active practitioners, including Handspring Puppet Company’s Basil Jones, Redmoon’s Jim Lasko, and Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann. Fully illustrated with more than 60 images, this volume comprises the most expansive English-language collection of international puppetry scholarship to date.

Mythology of Vishnu and His Incarnations

Author : Manohar Laxman Varadpande
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788121210164
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mythology of Vishnu and His Incarnations written by Manohar Laxman Varadpande and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Invented History, Fabricated Power

Author : Barry Wood
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785274767
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Invented History, Fabricated Power written by Barry Wood and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal explanation and power through ritual and shamanism among tribal peoples. On this foundation, spiritual power evolved into various kinds of divine sanction for kings and emperors (Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese and Japanese). As kingships expanded into empires, fictional histories and millennia-long genealogies developed that portrayed imperial superiority and greatness. Supernatural events and miracles were attached to religious founders (Hebrew, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic). A unique variation developed in the Roman Church which fabricated papal power through forgeries in the first millennium CE and the later “doctrine of discovery” which authorized European domination and conquest around the world during the Age of Exploration. Elaborate fabrications continued with epic histories and literary cycles from the Persians, Ethiopians, Franks, British, Portuguese, and Iroquois Indians. Both Marxists and Nazis created doctrinal texts which passed for economic or political explanations but were in fact self-aggrandizing narratives that eventually collapsed. The book ends with the idealistic goals of the current liberal democratic way of life, pointing to its limitations as a sustaining narrative, along with numerous problems threatening its viability over the long term.