Turning Promises into Performance - The Management Challenge of Implementing Workfare (Hardcover, New)

While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics. Completing the trilogy that includes Darsan: Seeing the Divine and Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America, this volume focuses on how rasa has been applied in a range of Indian performance traditions."Rasa" is taste, essence, flavor. How is it possible that a word used to describe a delicious masala can also be used to critique a Bharata Natyam performance? Rasa expresses the primary goals of performing arts in India in all the major literary, philosophical, and aesthetic texts, and it provides the cornerstone of the oral traditions of transmission. It is also essential to the study and production of sculpture, architecture, and painting. Yet its primary referent is cuisine. This book articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional performing arts as well as other applications of rasa and examines the relationships between the arts and religion in India today.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1993
First published:	July 1993
Authors:	Richard Nathan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	160
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-07962-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
LSN:	0-231-07962-1
Barcode:	9780231079624

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