£136.81

The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia (South Asian History and Culture)

Folk Music

Price data last checked 43 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£137 today · previous high £137 · all-time low £136

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 48 days • 48 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 48 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £136 (43 days, 89.6%)

Price range: £136 - £137

Price levels: 2 different prices over 48 days

Description

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. The book shows how the genre, thought to be a nearly extinct form, is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how, like many other ‘folk’ practices in South and South-East Asia, the content and format of this genre has undergone vital changes, thus raising questions of authenticity, patronage, and cultural politics. She captures live performances of Kobigaan through ethnographies spread across borders―from village rituals to urban festivals, and from Bengali cinema to television and new media. While understanding Kobigaan from the practitioners’ points of view, this book also explores the crucial issues of gender, marginalisation, and representation that are true of any performance genre. Drawing on case studies, it underlines the issues of artistic agency, empowerment, cultural labour and heritage, rituals, authenticity, creative industries, media, gender, and identity politics. Part of the South Asian History and Culture series, this book is a major intervention in South Asian folklore and performance studies. It also expands into the larger disciplines of literature, social and cultural movements in South Asia, ethnomusicology, and the politics of performance.

Key Features

Edition Number - 0001. Pages Count - 320. Binding type - Hardcover.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 036790313X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Folk Music
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 October 2023
Listed Since: 30 March 2023

Barcode

No barcode data available

The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia (South Asian History and Culture)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge - Legacies of Ewan MacColl: The Last Interview

The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

The Voice of the People: Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760–1914 (Anthem European Studies)

Routledge - Street Ballads in 19th-Century Britain and Ireland

A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series)

The Digital Folklore of Cyberculture and Digital Humanities

The Digital Folklore of Cyberculture and Digital Humanities (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology)

Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life

When We Were Good: The Folk Revival

The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy (Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America)

Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois

Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (Critical Asian Studies)

Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France: 18 (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, Series Number 18)

Georgia - The Land of Unique People and Songs: The Land of Unique People and Songs (Georgian Classics)

Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (Critical Asian Studies)

Rethinking Folk Drama: 83 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content: 6 (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities)

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics: 15 (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present

A Companion to Folklore: 11 (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology)

The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore

Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland: A Pedagogy of Participation (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)