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Presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. This atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. It provides an ethnographic survey of musical traditions.

Brings together the important essays from the Vsevolod Pudovkin's two key books, "Film Technique" and "Film Acting". These essays highlight the development of his revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting. His films - "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm Over Asia" - are classics of silent cinema.

Focuses on culture, ideology and philosophy in the context of building an alternative vision of socialism. This book brings together the author's key writings on socialism and its culture from the Manuscripts. It explores the realization of the concept of total man, the problems of freedom, equality and hierarchy, the role of the Party, and more.

Explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. Illustrated throughout with halftones and accompanied by a compact disc of musical examples from many of the traditions discussed, this title is of interest to scholars of ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology.

Traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to focus on the lived experiences of dancers from a wide cross-section of society, this book narrates the history of Kathak from baijis and tawaifs to the global stage.