Popular Culture in South Asian Context

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-72745-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry and critical social-political issues in South Asia. It highlights the interface between cultural studies and its popular-political standpoints and interrogates the kaleidoscope of popular imaginary as well as its conceptual problematics through distinct case studies from the region. It leads learners towards the unfounded territories of popular culture studies in South Asia. With chapters by major scholars in the field, the book uses theoretically comprehensive and empirically varied case studies to re-evaluate the central questions of epistemology, methodology, and approaches to popular culture studies from non-Western cultures' perspectives.

Lucid, accessible, and nuanced, the chapters in the volume will be an invaluable reference source for scholars, researchers, and students in the humanities, liberal arts, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Akshaya

Thakur, Raj

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Gesellschaftstänze, Volkstänze
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Performance, Ritual and Folk  1. Secular “bhavs” of Remixed Dances: Dance Reality Shows as Soft Resistance  2. The ‘High Seriousness’ of Comedy: Stand-up Comedy and the Tradition of Dissent  3. From Behind the Mask: The Jabulo of the Khasis  4. The Axiology of the Lakhe and Navdurga Masked Ritual Dances of Nepal  5. Asura, Danava, Rakshasa: Interpreting Popular Indian Myths from Dalit Perspectives  6. Tales of Love, Passion, Murder, and History: Poet’s Songs from Barak Valley  7. Sanjhi: A Multihued Folk Festive Presence within an Over-arching Feminine Divinity  8. Can Nauntanki be digital?: A Study of Nautanki Performances in the Post-Covid Era  9. C¯avittunatakam and Latin Christians: Becoming and Reviving Identity  10. Musical Culture of Mourning Rituals: Liminality of the Orthodox and the Popular  11. Only a Joke: Stand-up Comedy and Disability in the Indian Context  Part II: New Media Frames  12. Breaking Stereotypes or Making Stereotypes: Hiphop Dance in India  13. Mourning, Cult, Fandom and its Tentative Figurations: A Case Study of Pop-star-turned- cleric Junaid Jamshed’s Death and Mourning on the Internet  14. Cringe is the New binge: Matrimony, Desire and the Female Body in Netflix's Indian Matchmaking and Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives  15. From Streets to You Tube: Ladisha as an Alternate (Hi)story-Teller  16. Exploring the ‘Manosphere’: Analyzing Masculinities and the Politics of Red Pill in India across Social Media Platforms  Part III: Cinema and Identity  17. Cultural Studies, Popular Hindi Cinema and the Question of Aesthetics  18. Zindagi Tamasha to Kamli: Squeezing Space of Emergent Cinema of Pakistan  19. Framing the Ecology of Fear  20. Subverting the Popular Gaze in Stree (2018) and Bulbbul (2021)  21. Dalit Sporting Imaginary and Jhund  22. “My Son Won’t Play Cricket for England”: Cricket, Patriarchy, and Diasporic Subjectivity in Patiala House  23. Screening Sainthood: Shifting Paradigms in the films on Vivekananda  24. Surrogate Inc.: The Commercialization of Bollywood’s Surrogacy Narrative in the Neoliberal Age  25. An Excavation of Identities through Indiana Jones  Part IV: Visual Figurations  26. The Home and the World of Hindi Television Serials  27. Troubling the Waters: Graphic Advocacy and the Indo-Sri Lankan Fisher Folk’s Tale  28. Post-1971: Photographic Ambivalence, Archives, and the Construction of National Identity of Bangladesh  29. Talking Walls- Muted Femininity  30. Popular Culture of Cynicism and its Satirical Expressions in Art: Notes from Contemporary Pakistan  31. Re-viewing the Mythoepic in Indian Popular Imagination  Part V: Spatial Becomings  32. Willkommen (“Welcome”) Bishan Singh to the Kit Kat Klub  33. Unpacking Popular Culture from the Lens of Public Philosophy  34. Popular Culture in Early Nationalist Imagination  35. The World Ends in South Asia: Dilli Dystopias and the (Post-)Apocalypse  36. “Oppositely Parallels”: A Visual Inquiry on Squeezing Female Spaces

Über Autor(innen)

Akshaya Kumar is Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Raj Thakur is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Central University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.