Rasa (Performing The Divine in India)

Contents Preface ix Transliteration And Romanization xiii 1 A Taste of Things to Come 1 2 Rasa in Theory: Text and Context 7 Etymological Ingredients 7 Sources of Inspiration 10 A Written Recipe for the Arts 12 Influences and Implications 16 3 Rasa in practice: Drama, Dance, Music 21 All the Stage Is but a World 21 Dance as Mystery 25 Bharata Natyam 36 Sbringara Rasa: What Love Has to Do with It 47 Kathak 52 Kathakali 56 Good Taste in Music 72 Dissonance, Assonance, Variation, Transcendence 78 4 Transformations in Time and Space 87 Glossary 99 Notes 101 Bibliography 107 Index 113