Guru''s Journey - Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora

An ethnographic study of the kathak dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Pandit Chitresh Das.

List of contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation

Note on Names and Honorifics

Note on Musical Notation

Acknowledgments

1. Encountering the Dance

2. Dancing History

3. On the American Stage

4. Teaching in a New Country

5. Dancing Gender

6. Dancing Unity, Articulating Difference

7. Form and Freedom in Kathak Performance

8. Coming Full Circle

Notes

Appendix: Persons Interviewed by the Author

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Index

Back cover

About the author

Sarah Morelli

Summary

An ethnographic study of the kathak dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Pandit Chitresh Das.

Product details

• Authors: MORELLI, Sarah Morelli
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780252042867
• ISBN: 978-0-252-04286-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Music in American Life
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory