Cultural Labour Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India

Cultural Labour Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India
- ISBN 13:
9780199490813
- ISBN 10:
0199490813
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/01/2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In Cultural Labour, the author studies bhuiyan puja (landworship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana: he examines various ways in which meanings and behaviour are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, the author looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts. Based on an extensive ethnography and the author's own life experience as a member of such a community, the book offers a new conceptual framework to understand the politics and aesthetics of folk performance in the light of contemporary theories of theatre and performance studies.