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Rethinking Global Indian Dance through Local Eyes: The Contemporary Bharatanatyam Scene in Chennai
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In this article, the authors argue that the complexity of the relationship between the local and the global can be understood only in terms of historical conditions operating in specific contexts, and that the indigenization of global culture opens up the possibility of alternative experiences of modernity, which do not fall under the rubric of American culture but instead refer to other geocultural identities.Abstract:
Discussions about globalization tend to fall somewhere between two poles. One invokes the paranoia of what Appadurai (1996) refers to as a McDonaldization of the world, in which local practices, identities, and economies give way to the homogenizing mandates of capitalism. The other rejoices over the emergence of so-called hybrid cultural forms, interpreted as signs of the resilience of non-Western societies, as harbingers of the dawn of some new age of multicultural understanding, or as proof of the political power of consumers (Garcia Canclini 1995). Both views often underestimate the complexity of the relationship between the local and the global, and lose from view the fact that this relationship can be understood only in terms of historical conditions operating in specific contexts. While capitalism plunders the world, littering its path with Tommy Hilfiger, Pizza Hut, and the ever-popular sitcom Friends, there are many examples of the ways in which local populations do not passively consume what is thrown at them, but actively reinterpret and selectively combine elements of mass-mediated culture within preexisting frameworks and markets (Diawara 1998; Feld 1988; Martinez 1999). Moreover, the indigenization of global culture opens up the possibility of alternative experiences of modernity, which do not fall under the rubric of American culture but instead refer to other geocultural identities (Ching 2000).read more
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Uni- and multisensory brain areas are synchronised across spectators when watching unedited dance recordings.
Corinne Jola,Philip McAleer,Marie-Hélène Grosbras,Scott Love,Gordon Morison,Frank E. Pollick +5 more
TL;DR: While there was a consensus across subjects' brain activity in areas relevant for unisensory processing and AV integration of related audio and visual stimuli, there was no evidence for synchronisation of higher level cognitive processes, suggesting these were idiosyncratic.
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The Sanskritized Body1
TL;DR: The lifestyle of the sadir dancers of the early twentieth century was extensively researched by Amrit Srinivasan (1979-81) and documented in her ethnographic dissertation at Cambridge University 1984 and in subsequent articles as mentioned in this paper.
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Preface to the Revised Edition
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Bharatanatyam as a Global Dance: Some Issues in Research, Teaching, and Practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe Rukmini Devi's art and education movement, which could not be recuperated within the territorializing intellectual framework of Indian nationalism, and explain why she, in fact, manifests herself as a discursive failure in standard scholarly accounts of Bharatanatyam in the United States.
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Embodied Migration: Performance Practices of Diasporic Sri Lankan Tamil Communities in London
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine issues of embodied performativity and transmission of dance practices among Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus in the suburbs of London, focusing on how the experience of migration has shaped the making of cultural and ethnic identities.
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