Bharatanatyam
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Davesh Soneji.
Contributors: Soneji, Devesh.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780198065395
Subjects: Bharata natyam; Dance -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Devadasis; Dance -- India, South -- History
Notes: Contributed articles.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Devadasi dance : history and representation : representations of dance in colonial South India; title: pt. 2. Reinventing dance in South India : new beginnings? voices from twentieth century Madras; title: pt. 3. Contemporary extensions; title: pt. 4. Dancers speak : personal journeys to and from Bharatanatyam.