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In-Between Worlds - Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Hardcover)
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In-Between Worlds - Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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This book examines the performance of Bauls, 'folk' performers from
Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and
against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.
Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm,
Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and
transformational potency of Bauls and their performances.
In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical,
spiritual, and cultural performances offer 'joy' and
'spirituality,' thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his
famous 1942 speech had identified as 'reclamation of human
personality'. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of 'folk' as a
fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous
historical representations of the Baul as a 'folk' performer and a
wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that
characterizes this group. Establishing 'folk-ness' as a performance
category, and 'folk festivals' as sites of performing 'folk-ness,'
contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and
recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that
produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits
of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality
and multifocality. While this project has grounded itself firmly in
performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of
postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature,
ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.
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