5. Note to Self: What Marathi Kirtankars’ Notebooks Suggest about Literacy, Performance, and the Travelling Performer in Pre-Colonial Maharashtra

doi:10.11647/obp.0062.05

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0062.05

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright

Christian Lee Novetzke

Published On

2015-10-05

Page Range

pp. 169-184

Print Length

15 pages

5. Note to Self: What Marathi Kirtankars’ Notebooks Suggest about Literacy, Performance, and the Travelling Performer in Pre-Colonial Maharashtra

Christian Lee Novetzke (author)

Chapter of: Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India(pp. 169–184)

This piece distils some of his ground-breaking work on badas, the notebooks of Namdev, which singers used as prompts for oral presentations. Novetzke abandons the familiar dialectic of literacy and orality for one of permanence and performance.

Contributors

Christian Lee Novetzke

(author)