Androgyny and female impersonation in India: nari bhav, ed. by Tutun Mukherjee, et al.

ISBN: 9789385285462, 9385285467

The volume discusses concepts of androgyny that permeate Indian cultural ethos and as expressed through female impersonators not only in religion, theatre and dance but also in contemporary performative mediums like films, television, and the internet. The volume also presents interactions with performers of the dying art form of female impersonation.

Angarag - all that visual matters: a journal on performing and visual arts, Vol.1, 2006 (semi-annual)

Anthropology of sound: Santal tribe

Prasad, Onkar

ISBN: 9789350502679, 9350502674

The present work is an anthropological study of sound based on an empirical study among the Santal, a tribe of Proto-Australoid origin of Eastern India also settled in majority in the Bribhum district of West Bengal, India.;;

Aparajitapracha of Bhuvanade vacarya: a treatise of housing, architecture, mathematics, iconography, music and dance etc, along with Sanskrit text & 'Mohanabodhini' Hindi co...

ISBN: 9788171103867, 8171103863

........ with Hindi and edited with scholarly notes by Shri Krishna `Jugnu' and Bhanwar Sharma, 2 vols.;

Apu and after: re-visiting Ray's cinema

Biswas, Moinak (ed.)

ISBN: 9781905422265, 1905422261

This collection takes a fresh look at the major films of Ray. Scholars from film studies, literary studies and social sciences read the director's work in the light of the recent research on Indian cinema and culture. This collection, arriving on the fiftieth anniversary of Pather Panchali, is one of the first to address Ray's work through the prism of contemporary critical theory.

A history of Indian literature, Vol.VI, Fasc 1: Musicological literature, by Emmie Te Nijenhuis, Series ed. by Jan Gonda

ISBN: 9789388540452, 938854045X

The writer has confined herself to a survey of those Sanskrit works on music and dance that have been published.

The art and culture of south-east Asia: a tribute to Late Dr. Mrs. Sharada Rani

Lokesh Chandra (ed.)

ISBN: 9788185179735, 8185179735

A volume dedicated to the many-splendoured culture of Indonesia with contributions by scholars from Australia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Soviet Union, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America. It deals with music and magic, law and jurisprudence, visual performances and sculptural representations, text and temple, Saivism and Buddhism, poetry and cano...

The art of Bollywood: in collaboration with the National Film Archive of India

Devraj, Rajesh et al.

ISBN: 9783836521857, 3836521857

Since its inception in the second decade of the 20th century, the Bombay-based Indian film industry-Bollywood-has developed a unique visual language, articulared by the vivid hand-painted move posters that have since become highly-desirable collectors' items. This books digs deeper into the tradition, presenting the original art in its true glory-from seldom-seen posters to rare images of stree...

The art of costume design, foreword by Lord Richard Attenborough

Athaiya, Bhanu Rajopadhye

ISBN: 9788172239435, 8172239432

This is a classic work on the pioneering vision of a person who shaped the landmarks of Indian film costumes, set the fashion trend of the 1960s and 70s, and won Indian cinema the highest acclaim in the international arena.

The art of Kathakali

Pandeya, Gayanacharya Aninash C.

ISBN: 9788182904217, 8182904218

The art of tabla rhythm: essentials, tradition and creativity (with CD)

Saxena, Sudhir Kumar (1923-2007)

ISBN: 9788124603680, 8124603685

This authoritative work deals comprehensively with tabla rhythm, focusing on the performed art with an eye to its history and aesthetics.

The arts and crafts of Myanmar: the Indian Museum collection

Bhattacharya, Asok K

The collection, accumulated in about 100 years was mostly so long languishing in the secured reserves of the museum. The monograph introduces the objects in the following categories: sculpture, textile, lacquerwork, ceramics, metal-work, musical instruments and miscellaneous objects.

Hindujas and bollywood,

Rai, Ajit

ISBN: 9789355180773, 9355180772

The author provides an incisive description of host of memories connected with Hindujas and Hindi film industry in this book.

Aryan invasion theory and Indian nationalism

Talageri, Shrikant G

ISBN: 9788185990026, 8185990026

History is a very potent subject. Politics can be, and very often is, based on it. A nation which forgets, or falsifies, or wilfully ignores, or glosses over the lessons of its history is a nation heading towards doom. And, conversely, when a nation is intended to be sent to its doom, a process of falsification of its history can be profitably launched.;Indian history, as it is formulated, taug...

Asha Bhosle: a musical biography

Bharatan, Raju

ISBN: 9789385827150, 9385827154

Asian dance: multiple levels

Vatsyayan, Kapila

ISBN: 9788188827237, 8188827231

The monograph offers, for the first time, a collection of path-breaking writings of Kapila Vatsyayan, published as research papers in various journals during the last fifty years.

Aspects of indian history: Prof. Ram Mohan Sinha commemoration volumes

Mishra, JP (ed.)

Aspects of Indian music

Aspects of speech in Vedic ritual

Dange, Sindhu S

ISBN: 9788173050787, 8173050783

Contents: (i) Speech and its aspects. (ii) Meters and their magic. (iii) Sampad-s of meters. (iv) Mystic utterances in the Vedic rituals. (v) Saman-s and lauds. (vi) Songs from secular tradition. (vii) Upamsu, Anirukta and Tusnim offerings. (viii) Vocal and instrumental music in the Vedic ritual.

Aural films, oral cultures: essays on cinema, from the early sound era

Mukherjee, Madhuja (ed.)

ISBN: 9788186954812, 8186954813

Avenues to beauty: eight essays in aesthetics

Sexena, SK

ISBN: 9788124605332, 8124605335