Tellings and texts music, literature and performance in North India
"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 fro...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England :
Open Book Publishers
2015.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423587306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Note on Dating Systems
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction / Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield
- I. Between Texts and Practices. 1. The Example in Dadupanthi Homiletics / Monika Horstmann
- 2. Making it Vernacular in Agra: The Practice of Translation by Seventeenth-Century Jains / John E. Cort
- 3. World Enough and Time: Religious Strategy and Historical Imagination in an Indian Sufi Tale / Muzaffar Alam
- 4. Hearing Mo‘jizat in South Asian Shi‘ism / Amy Bard
- II. Books and Performances, Books for Performance. 5. Note to Self: What Marathi Kirtankars’ Notebooks Suggest about Literacy, Performance, and the Travelling Performer in Pre-Colonial Maharashtra / Christian Lee Novetzke
- 6. A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭirāz al-akhbār and the Qissa Genre / Pasha M. Khan
- 7. Did Surdas Perform the Bhāgavata Purāṇa? / John Stratton Hawley
- 8. Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music / Richard Widdess
- III. Written Clues about Performed Texts. 9. Listening for the Context: Tuning in to the Reception of Riti Poetry / Allison Busch
- 10. Reading the Acts and Lives of Performers in Mughal Persian Texts / Sunil Sharma
- 11. Persian Poets on the Streets: The Lore of Indo-Persian Poetic Circles in Late Mughal India / Stefano Pellò
- 12. Texts and Tellings: Kathas in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Francesca Orsini
- 13. A Curious King, a Psychic Leper, and the Workings of Karma: Bajid’s Entertaining Narratives / Imre Bangha
- IV. Musical Knowledge and Aesthetics. 14. Raga in the Early Sixteenth Century / Allyn Miner
- 15. Learning to Taste the Emotions: The Mughal Rasika / Katherine Butler Schofield
- 16. Paradigms of Performance and Poetical Composition in the Seventeenth-Century Bengali Literature of Arakan / Thibaut d’Hubert
- 17. The Shi‘i Faces of Nizamuddin: Nizami Drumming and Texts in Delhi and Karachi / Richard K. Wolf
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
