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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.b23jdm
- isbn: 9781783741021
- eisbn: 9782821876163
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India oral tradition folklore storytelling Inde art de conter folklore tradition orale Folklore Literature (General) LIT008020 DSBSujets proches
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Muzaffar Alam et al., « Tellings and Texts », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.b23jdm
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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 reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and storytelling.