The Poet’s Song

Released on by Priyanka Basu
preview-18

  • The Poet’s Song Book Detail

  • Author : Priyanka Basu
  • Release Date : 2023-08-27
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 274
  • ISBN 13 : 1000960889
  • File Size : 51,51 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Poet’s Song by Priyanka Basu PDF Summary

Book Description: This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel, in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. Thought to be a nearly extinct form, the book shows how the genre is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how like many other ‘folk’ practices in South and South-East Asia, the content and format of this genre has undergone vital changes thus raising questions of authenticity, patronage and cultural politics. She captures live performances of Kobigaan through ethnographies spread across borders — from village rituals to urban festivals, and from Bengali cinema to television and new media. While understanding Kobigaan from the practitioners’ points-of-view, this book also explores the crucial issues of gender, marginalization and representation that is true of any performance genre. Drawing on case studies, it underlines the issues of artistic agency, empowerment, cultural labour and heritage, ritual, authenticity, creative industries, media, gender, and identity politics. Part of the ‘South Asian History and Culture’ series, this book is a major intervention in South Asian folklore and performance studies. It also expands into the larger disciplines of literature, social and cultural movements in South Asia, ethnomusicology and the politics of performance.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Poet’s Song books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Poet’s Song

The Poet’s Song

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 9850 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel, in contemporary West Bengal in Ind

Modernist Transitions

Modernist Transitions

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 3324 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume is a critical reader, focusing on the continuities and discontinuities, confirmations and confrontations, crossovers and collisions, appropriations,

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India

File Size : 65,65 MB
Total View : 6759 Views
DOWNLOAD

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped the

Temple to Love

Temple to Love

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 7756 Views
DOWNLOAD

Includes 82 stunning black-and-white images of rarely photographed structures.Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies

Education for Fullness

Education for Fullness

File Size : 15,15 MB
Total View : 9878 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume is the first comprehensive exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s works on education and pedagogy. It presents a valuable account of the creation of