Cultural Geography of Kathak Dance: Streams of Tradition and Global Flows

The article deals with the modern history of Kathak, explored from regional perspectives. It focuses on the Lucknow gharānā (“school”) of Kathak, which sprung up mainly in courts and salons of colonial Avadh as a product of Indo-Islamic culture. The paper investigates how the shift of hereditary ar...

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Autor principal:	Katarzyna Skiba
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	classical Indian dance Kathak Lucknow gharānā, Indo-Islamic culture Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:661179a7014f44dc916e06b07b8e39692021-11-27T12:53:34ZCultural Geography of Kathak Dance: Streams of Tradition and Global Flows10.12797/CIS.18.2016.18.041732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/661179a7014f44dc916e06b07b8e39692021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1565https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The article deals with the modern history of Kathak, explored from regional perspectives. It focuses on the Lucknow gharānā (“school”) of Kathak, which sprung up mainly in courts and salons of colonial Avadh as a product of Indo-Islamic culture. The paper investigates how the shift of hereditary artists from Lucknow to Delhi affected their tradition in newly founded, state-supported institutions. It also examines various trends of further modernization of Kathak in globalized, metropolitan spaces. The tendency of Sanskritization in national dance institutes (Kathak Kendra) is juxtaposed with the preservation of ‘traditional’ form in dance schools of Lucknow (nowadays becoming more provincial locations of Kathak tradition) and innovative / experimental tendencies. The impact of regional culture, economic conditions and cosmopolitanism are regarded as important factors reshaping Kathak art, practice and systems of knowledge transmission. The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork, combined with historical research, conducted in the period 2014–2015. Katarzyna SkibaKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticleclassical Indian danceKathakLucknow gharānā,Indo-Islamic cultureIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 18 (2021)
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description	The article deals with the modern history of Kathak, explored from regional perspectives. It focuses on the Lucknow gharānā (“school”) of Kathak, which sprung up mainly in courts and salons of colonial Avadh as a product of Indo-Islamic culture. The paper investigates how the shift of hereditary artists from Lucknow to Delhi affected their tradition in newly founded, state-supported institutions. It also examines various trends of further modernization of Kathak in globalized, metropolitan spaces. The tendency of Sanskritization in national dance institutes (Kathak Kendra) is juxtaposed with the preservation of ‘traditional’ form in dance schools of Lucknow (nowadays becoming more provincial locations of Kathak tradition) and innovative / experimental tendencies. The impact of regional culture, economic conditions and cosmopolitanism are regarded as important factors reshaping Kathak art, practice and systems of knowledge transmission. The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork, combined with historical research, conducted in the period 2014–2015.
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title	Cultural Geography of Kathak Dance: Streams of Tradition and Global Flows
title_short	Cultural Geography of Kathak Dance: Streams of Tradition and Global Flows
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Cultural Geography of Kathak Dance: Streams of Tradition and Global Flows

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