1st Edition

Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora

Edited By Tina K Ramnarine Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora provides fascinating examples of dance and music projects across the Indian Diaspora to highlight that decolonisation is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one. The book analyses creative processes in decolonising projects, illustrating how dance and music across the Indian Diaspora articulate... Read more

1. Dance, music and cultures of decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora: towards a pluralist reading

Tina K. Ramnarine

2. Dancing the rainbow nation as it bleeds: the Surialanga Dance Company in post-apartheid South Africa

Smitha Radhakrishnan

3. Music competitions, public pedagogy and decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago

Christopher L. Ballengee

4. The BBC Young Dancer and the decolonising imagination

Magdalen Gorringe

5. Decolonising Indian classical dance? Projects of reform, classical to contemporary

Sitara Thobani

6. Gender, new creativity and Carnatic music in London

Jasmine Hornabrook

7. Decolonising moves: gestures of reciprocity as feminist intercultural performance

Priya Srinivasan

8. Decolonising human exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction

Prarthana Purkayastha

Biography

Tina K. Ramnarine is a musician, anthropologist and global cultural explorer. She has published widely, including Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora (2007), Musical Performance in the Diaspora (Routledge, 2007), and Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency (2018).