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Walker, Margaret Edith.

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Kathak dance: A critical history (India).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Kathak dance: A critical history (India)./
Author:	Walker, Margaret Edith.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-10, Section: A, page: 3608.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-10A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ94473
ISBN:	0612944735

Kathak dance: A critical history (India).
Walker, Margaret Edith.

Kathak dance: A critical history (India). - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-10, Section: A, page: 3608.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2004.

Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. Its repertoire and movement vocabulary show its syncretic origins---it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Histories of kathak dance, however, claim that it began as a temple dance, originally performed by a clan of Brahman storytellers called Kathaks who recounted the Hindu epics with expressive gestures. The dance is still largely disseminated by hereditary dance families from the Kathak caste, who are said to have preserved the ancient form while migrating to the Muslim courts. Difficulties arise, however, when one attempts to discover the early form of kathak and to trace its development through the courts. The history of kathak, as it has been written until now, contains numerous gaps, contradictions and paradoxes.

ISBN: 0612944735Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

Kathak dance: A critical history (India).
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520 $a Through a broad yet in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources, ethnography and iconography, this dissertation undertakes a critical examination of the history of kathak as it exists in publications and popular knowledge, calls many of the accepted "facts" into question, and hypothesizes a different account. In the process of dismantling the accepted version, which promotes a past which is not only specifically male and Hindu, but also linear, I uncover a web of closely related traditions which only combined in the early twentieth century to form a dance called kathak .
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