Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India
2008
co-editor, with Indira Viswanathan Peterson, of Performing Pasts: Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India (Oxford University Press, 2008
Performing Pasts discusses the interface of performing arts and modernity in south India. The essays illuminate, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the processes by which dance and music were re-constituted as classical traditions in the modern era.