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Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in social and cultural life. Women's roles were often also taken by boys and men, some of whom were simply female impersonators, others transgender. Since the late nineteenth century the status, livelihood and identity of these performers have all diminished, with the result that many of them have become involved in sexual transactions and sexualised performances. Meanwhile, upper-class, upper-caste women have taken control of the classical performing arts and also entered the film industry, while a Bollywood dance and fitness craze has recently swept middle class India. In her historical on-the-ground study, Anna Morcom investigates the emergence of illicit worlds of dance in the shadow of India's official performing arts. She explores over a century of marginalisation of courtesans, dancing girls, bar girls and transgender performers, and de- scribes their lives as they struggle with stigmatisation, derision and loss of livelihood.

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Title Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion
Author Anna Morcom
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 2014-01-15
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199343546 / 0199343543
Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Indian
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects India - Social conditions, Marginality, Social - India
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013017923
Dewey Decimal Code 793.319

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Choice, 10/01/2014, Page 262

About the author

Anna Morcom works on music and dance in India and Tibet from a number of perspectives pertaining to modernity and the contemporary world. Her publications include Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema and Unity and Discord: Music and Politics in Contemporary Tibet. She is a lecturer in the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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