{"id":1220,"date":"2022-01-10T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2022-01-24T00:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:31:29","slug":"sharma-p-muralidhar-poetry-performance-and-the-courtesan-changing-contours-of-the-thumri-in-kathak-caesuare-poetics-of-cultural-translation-vol-2-issue-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Sharma, P. Muralidhar. \u201cPoetry, Performance, and the Courtesan: Changing Contours of the Thumri in Kathak.\u201d Caesuare: Poetics of Cultural Translation, Vol.2, Issue 1, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>From the abstract: \u201cThe paper purports to study the changing contexts of the <em>thumri<\/em>, a form of light vocal music that was the mainstay of the <em>tawaifs<\/em> and other courtesan communities of nineteenth century North India. The paper, through a critique of the scholarship on the performing arts, calls for a more serious engagement with the cultural practices of hereditary women performers, one that acknowledges the impact of technological renovation and the emergence of music institutions on the performance practices of the courtesans. More importantly, it charts the evolution of the musical form of <em>thumri<\/em> as an indispensable part of the repertoire of <em>Kathak<\/em> in the decades following the independence, to show how it was significantly influenced by the New Media that altered both its content and structure. The emergence of identifiably distinct repertoires of performance embodied in the <em>gharanas<\/em> of dance in this period and their appropriation of <em>thumri<\/em> as part of their articulation of a distinct aesthetic are explored as parallel concerns in the paper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the abstract: \u201cThe paper purports to study the changing contexts of the thumri, a form of light vocal music that was the mainstay of the tawaifs and other courtesan communities of nineteenth century North India. The paper, through a critique of the scholarship on the performing arts, calls for a more serious engagement with <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=1220\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55,83],"tags":[24,88,26,49],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-history","tag-dance","tag-music","tag-secondary-source","tag-tawaif"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}