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Rasa - Performing the Divine in India (Paperback): Susan L. Schwartz

Rasa - Performing the Divine in India (Paperback)

Susan L. Schwartz

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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: August 2004
First published: August 2004
Authors: Susan L. Schwartz
Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13145-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General
LSN: 0-231-13145-3
Barcode: 9780231131452

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