Guest guest Posted May 23, 2003 Report Share Posted May 23, 2003 INDOLOGY, Maya <mtn2002ca> wrote: > > >I am looking for a dictionary on Indian Classical Dances. Could > >anyone suggest one for me? > > There's one recent dictionary on south Indian classical music (by Ludwig Pesch, OUP). But don't know any for nATyam. Some related titles on south Indian dance. a) Bharata natyam : from temple to theatre, Gaston, Anne-Marie. New Delhi : Manohar, 1996, 403 p. ISBN: 8173041466 b) Dance terminologies : their epigraphical interpretations Hema Govindarajan. New Delhi : Harman Pub. House, 1993 c) The Tamil padam :a dance music genre of South India Allen, Matthew Harp. 1992, 2 v., v. 1. Text -- v. 2. Appendices. PhD, Wesleyan university. (Now, M. Allen is completing a book on Carnatic music and dance). d) At home in the world : Bharata Natyam's transnational traditions, by O'Shea, Janet M. 2001, Ph. D. dissertation, Univ. of California, Riverside e) Playing host to deity : festival religion in the South Indian tradition. (Has articles on native dances spreading to Guyana, ...). Younger, Paul. Oxford University Press, 2002 f) Rasa in Bharata Natyam : the Hindu view of art in its application to the classical dance of South India Mitchell, Lucinda J. Dissertation, Smith college, Nortn, MA, 1968 Transformation of devadasi Catir/Bharatanatyam in 20th century. On the term devadasi, a sanskrit rendering of the tamil term, tEva(ra)TiyaaL: INDOLOGY/message/1296 (Works by Profs. F.-A. Marglin, Saskia Kersenboom, ... are detailed studies about devadasis. Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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