Communication, culture and confrontation

The third volume in the series, "Communication Processes" engages in understanding processes of communication in relation to cultural configurations and contending forces that permeate them. Moving away from the conceptual reduction of communication to the technological metaphors of 'tranportation' and 'transmission', the "Communication Processes Series" undertakes discourse involving multiple voices, bringing together academic and grassroot viewpoints. The present book explores another level of analysis in which forms, ways and media of communication appear in connection with the cultures of communicators and theiraudiences. This volume is positioned at the interface of culture and communication-exploring ways in which interaction, negotiations and even conflicts arevoiced. It re-examines our conception of culture to show that communities cannot be divided into polarities such as 'elite and popular' or 'dominant and subaltern'-establishing that such clear divisions cannot exist in society. Culture is therefore perceived as a field of contending forces: a milieu of exchange, encounter, confrontation and possibly conflict. The volume argues that cultural configurations display themselves as evolutive forms of social communication, weaving human beings into collectives, and binding these collectives withone another, all permeated with the power parameter. It identifies seven different cultural forms such as rituals, narratives and songs and discusses 18 case studies to suggest a complex model of cultural communication. It also discusses popular culture as the site of struggle between forces of dominant and subordinate communities. INDICE: Introduction PART ONE: CONFLICTING STAKES Introduction Editors From the Popular to the People - Guy Poitevin Interventionist Tendencies in Popular Culture - Vibodh Parthasarathi The Indian Legal System: A Unique Combination of Traditions, Practices and Modern Values - Karine Bates PART TWO: POWER OF ORALITY Introduction Terrains of Rejuvenation The Donkey: A Mirror of Self-identification - Guy Poitevin Memory and Social Protest - Badri Narayan Tiwari Say It in Singing!: Prosodic Patterns and Rhetorics in the Performance of Grindmill Songs - Bernard Bel, Genevieve Caelen-Haumont and Hema Rairkar Assets ofDissent Grindmill Songs: A Reference of Autonomous Self-insight - Hema Rairkar From Grindmill Songs to Cultural Action - Tara Ubhe A Reactivated Performance Capacity - Kusum Sonavne PART THREE: CONTOURS OF CREATIVITY Introduction Scenarios of Stress Folk Arts and Folk Artists: Myths and Realities - PJ Amala Dos Scenarios of Appropriation Resisting Colonial Modernity - Premchands Rangabhoomi and Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay Street Theatre in Maharashtra - Hema Rairkar Action Theatre in Belgium - Paul Biot PART FOUR: CONTESTATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES Introduction Intruding Orders Ephemera, Communication and the Quest for Power: Hindutva in Uttar Pradesh - Jayati Chaturvedi and Gyaneshwar Chaturvedi TheRitual Management of Desire in Indian Bazaar Art - Kajri Jain Contending Idioms On the Way to Pandhari - Jitendra Maid and Guy Poitevin The Famous Invincible Darkies - Denis-Constant Martin.

• ISBN: 978-81-321-0227-4
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 474
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés