TY - BOOK AU - Prakash,Brahma TI - Cultural labour: conceptualizing the 'folk performance' in India SN - 9780199490813 (rel) PY - 2019/// CY - Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Art populaire KW - Inde KW - ram KW - Art et anthropologie KW - Musique KW - Anthropologie KW - Esth�etique KW - Folk art--India KW - lc KW - Folk art KW - Manners and customs KW - Performance art N1 - Bibliogr. p. [290]-316 N2 - "This book is an ethnographic field study of five Indian subaltern performance genres that propose a new way of understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and labour in the Indian social context, especially in relation to caste. The five performance traditions examined are bhuiyan puja (land worship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), reshma chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singer duels) and the performances ofGaddar and Jana Natya Mandali covering both north and south India, with a focus on the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh." ER -