International Performing Arts Resources
An introduction to researching music, theater, and dance from across the globe
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South Asia Resources
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Bibliography of Asian StudiesThousands of entries on the humanities and social sciences related to East, Southeast, and South Asia, published from 1971 to the present.
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Bibliography of Performing Arts of South and Central AsiaOngoing bibliography indexing over 3,000 publications on the South Asian performing arts.
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Bibliography of Performing Arts in IndiaOngoing bibliography indexing over 17,000 publications on Indian performing arts.
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Asia Traditional Theatre and DanceIntroduces traditional forms of dance and theater in India and Sri Lanka with video and photographs.
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Archive of Indian MusicArchive digitizing gramophone recordings and vinyl LPs of Indian music with relevant photographs, biographic information, and other significant historical material.
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Bhutan Dance ProjectOver 600 clips of the Kingdom of Bhutan's dance traditions from the New York Public Library's digital collection, with detailed notes on each video.
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Asian MusicEnglish journal with reviews and articles about Asian music, instruments, and plays, analyzing their history and societal roles. (Print available. Call number: ML 1 .A83)
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Asian Theatre JournalFocuses on Asian "traditional and modern theatrical forms" through articles, plays, translations, reviews, and reports. (Print available. Call number: 822.95 A83)
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Indian Theatre JournalJournal started in 2017 publishing articles, plays, reviews, interviews, and more, on many aspects of Indian theater and performance.
Texts
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Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India by Kathryn Hansen
Call Number: PN 2884.5 .N38 H361 1992 (AA&E Library)Describes the nautanki performance's social history, music, dance, poetry, and texts, specifically exploring the meanings of nautanki narratives. -
Performance and Culture: Narrative, Image and Enactment in India by Archana Verma
Call Number: PN 2881 .V47 2011 (AA&E Library)Describes various aspects of Indian dance and dance-drama analyzing how these aspects provide a performance narrative. -
The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia by Richard K. Wolf
Call Number: ML 3197 .W65 2014 (Music Library)Fictional book based on extensive field research in India and Pakistan portraying how drumming and voices carry messages in particular contexts.
Audiovisual Material
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Anthology of Indian MusicThree LPs containing recordings of various performers playing several instruments: the veena, venu, mridanga, sitar, sarod, tabula, and tamboura.
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Classical Indian DanceVideo presenting classical dances from India, showing the breadth of the art form through the addition of "mime, gesture, facial expression and body movement."
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Subjects: Arts, International Studies
Tags: dance, drama, music, performing arts, theater, theatre, world music