TY  - BOOK
ED  - Butler Schofield, Katherine
ED  - Orsini, Francesca
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0062
ID  - OAPEN ID: 633773
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 923571546
KW  - north india
KW  - storytelling
KW  - oral performances
KW  - improvisation
KW  - pakistan
KW  - social identity
KW  - texts
KW  - Mughal Empire
KW  - Raga
KW  - Sanskrit
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/56ab47aa-dfd3-45c1-8503-8f000174f4d8/633773.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31247
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781783741021
TI  - Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North Indianull
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