[PDF] Badhai eBook

Author : Adnan Hossain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350174556

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This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation, religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.

Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher :
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9780195633542

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Ethnological study.

Author : Adnan Hossain
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 9781350174566

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"This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. With its repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repartee performed by socially marginalized trans feminine hijra and khwaja sira, badhai has long been recognized as vital to these communities' identities. For students of theatre and performance, anthropology, religion, gender and cultural studies, the book illuminates an important form of performance, considering its changing status and uncertain future"--

Author : Adnan Hossain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350174548

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This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation, religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.