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The Tamil Padam: A Dance Music Genre of South India

The Tamil Padam: A Dance Music Genre of South India

Harp Allen, Matthew

Hardcover

DanceDanceIndian & South Asian Art

ISBN10: 9814968560
ISBN13: 9789814968560
Publisher: Jenny Stanford Pub
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book is a study of the Bharata Natyam dance genre padam focusing on its patrons and composers and its formal structure, texts, and music. It examines the rewriting of South Indian dance and the decades-long debates over the classicization and ownership of South Indian music. The control over the representation of the arts is a subject that should resonate with scholars working in a wide variety of genres and across many countries. The study is diachronic (historical) and also synchronic (examining padams' organizational structure as a system). Importantly, the text includes 30 Tamil language songs, minutely translated and annotated together with a documentation of their performance history in the 20th century. Classical and modern music composers and performers, ethnomusicologists, librettists, singers, choreographers, art historians, dancers, dance scholars, and dance teachers will find them useful in giving students a deep contextual understanding of Bharata Natyam. The book will find an enthusiastic readership with dance teachers who are actively training Bharata Natyam students. It will also attract a scholarly audience as an anthropological and historical study of an artistic form which has a high profile in South Asia and has become prominent in the growing fields of ethnomusicology, dance ethnography and world dance.

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