{"id":1026,"date":"2022-11-25T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2022-12-14T22:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:40:43","slug":"in-between-worlds-performing-as-bauls-in-an-age-of-extremism-book-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/2022\/11\/25\/in-between-worlds-performing-as-bauls-in-an-age-of-extremism-book-release\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism &#8211; Book Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti.<br \/>\nPublished November 25, 2022 by Routledge. 248 Pages 39 B\/W Illustrations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/In-Between-Worlds-Performing-as-Bauls-in-an-Age-of-Extremism\/Chakrabarti\/p\/book\/9780367757236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/routledge-book-screenshot-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"book-on-sale\" width=\"500\" height=\"auto\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/routledge-book-screenshot-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/routledge-book-screenshot-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/routledge-book-screenshot-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/routledge-book-screenshot-1536x662.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/routledge-book-screenshot-2048x883.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/In-Between-Worlds-Performing-as-Bauls-in-an-Age-of-Extremism\/Chakrabarti\/p\/book\/9780367757236\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Book Listing on Routledge website<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Book Description<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This book examines the performance of Bauls, \u2018folk\u2019 performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer \u2018joy\u2019 and \u2018spirituality,\u2019 thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his famous 1942 speech had identified as \u2018reclamation of human personality\u2019. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of \u2018folk\u2019 as a fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous historical representations of the Baul as a \u2018folk\u2019 performer and a wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that characterizes this group. Establishing \u2018folk-ness\u2019 as a performance category, and \u2018folk festivals\u2019 as sites of performing \u2018folk-ness,\u2019 contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality and multifocality.<\/p>\n<p>While this project has grounded itself firmly in performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature, ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti. Published November 25, 2022 by Routledge. 248 Pages 39 B\/W Illustrations Book Listing on Routledge website Book Description This book examines the performance of Bauls, \u2018folk\u2019 performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer \u2018joy\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[170,169,171,168],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-bauls","tag-book","tag-extremism","tag-routledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}