Santal Folk Dance Songs: Contextualizing Art & Culture

ABOUT THE BOOK:- Santal Folk Dance-Songscharts a hitherto unexplored epistemological terrain: to study Santali Folk Dance-songs of Jharkhand as the primary subject matter and contextualize how ‘the Santali culture’ is getting manifested in its art form. In fact, the Folk Dance-Songs offer a window to peep into the world of the Santals, their lives, customs, traditions religions and philosophy. It has been observed that these dance-songs have escaped the overpowering drive to ‘civilize’ them, be it in the pre-colonial, colonial times or thereafter and thus exist in their natural forms. This is, however, not to suggest that the Santali dance-songs have remained static in their pristine forms, it is a fact that gradual changes have crept into their forms, but not to the extent to alter their soul and spirit. All these factors make the Santali dance-songs worthy of documentation to understand the Santali cultural reality. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Rajesh Kumar, PhD., is the author of DalitsVs Aboriginal Australians: Convergences& Divergences and three other books. He has published numerous scholarly articles in national and international journals on various issues relating to literatures of margin. His areas of interest include: Culture Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Literatures of margin/ Marginality, Sociology of Dalit discourse, Dalit Autobiographies, Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies, Australian Aboriginal Literature, Dance Studies, Folklore Studies and Tribal Folk Literature of India. CONTENTS Photos . 6-i Acknowledgements .7 Introduction . 11 1. A Discourse on the notion of Performing Art and Culture .23 2. A Worldview of the Santal Traditions and Folk Dances . 93 3. Social Dancing I: Considering Contextualization . 125 4. Social Dancing II: Considering Contextualization . 181 5. Postmodern/Modern Impact on Santali Dance-songs . 247 Conclusion .273 Select Bibliography . 289 Index .301 The Title 'Santal Folk Dance Songs: Contextualizing Art & Culture written/authored/edited by Rajesh Kumar', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9789353240899 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 308 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Santal / Dance. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-