Research Catalog

Title

Tellings and texts : music, literature and performance in North India / edited by Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield.

Publication

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2015?]

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Additional Authors

• Orsini, Francesca.
• Schofield, Katherine Butler

Description

xix, 543 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 25 cm.

Summary

Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of music, literature and dramatization. 'Tellings and texts' is essential for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and storytelling. --

Subject

• Storytelling > India, North
• Oral tradition > India, North
• Folklore > Performance > India, North
• Folklore > Performance
• Oral tradition
• Storytelling
• North India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements (page ix) -- Note on Transliteration (page xi) -- Note on Dating Systems (page xii) -- List of Illustrations (page xiii) -- Notes on Contributors (page xv) -- Introduction / Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (page 1) -- I. Between Texts and Practices -- 1. The Example in Dadupanthi Homiletics / Monika Horst Mann (page 31) 2. Making it Vernacular in Agra: The Practice of Translation by Seventeenth-Century Jains / John E. Cort (page 61) -- 3. World Enough and Time: Religious Strategy and Historical Imagination in an Indian Sufi Tale / Muzaffar Alani (page 107) 4. Hearing Mo'jizat in South Asian Shi'ism / Amy Bard (page 137) II. Books and Performances, Books for Performance -- 5. Note to Self: What Marathi Kirtankars' Notebooks Suggest about Literacy, Performance, and the Travelling Performer in Pre-Colonial Maharashtra / Christian Lee Novetzke (page 169) -- 6. A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭiraz āl-akhbār and the Qissa Genre / Pasha M. Khan (page 185) -- 7. Did Surdas Perform the Blifigavata-puratja? / John Stratton Hawley (page 209) -- 8. Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music / Richard Widdess (page 231) -- III. Written Clues about Performed Texts -- 9. Listening for the Context: Tuning in to the Reception of Riti Poetry / Allison Busch (page 249) -- 10. Reading the Acts and Lives of Performers in Mughal Persian Texts / Sunil Sharma (page 283) -- 11. Persian Poets on the Streets: The Lore of Indo-Persian Poetic Circles in Late Mughal India / Stefano Pellò (page 303) -- 12. Texts and Tellings: Kathas in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Francesca Orsitti (page 327) -- 13. A Curious King, a Psychic Leper, and the Workings of Karma: Bajid's Entertaining Narratives / Imre Bangha (page 359) -- IV. Musical Knowledge and Aesthetics -- 14. Raga in the Early Sixteenth Century / Allyn Miner (page 385) -- 15. Learning to Taste the Emotions: The Mughal Rasika / Katherine Butler Schofield (page 407) -- 16. Patterns of Composition in the Seventeenth-Century Bengali Literature of Arakan / Thibaut d'Hubert (page 423) -- 17. The Musical Lives of Texts: Rhythms and Communal Relationships among the Nizamis and Some of Their Neighbours in South and West Asia / Richard K. Wolf (page 445) -- Glossary (page 485) -- Bibliography (page 493) -- Index (page 535).

ISBN

• 9781783741038
• 1783741031

OCLC

• 927141443
• SCSB-11394292

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library