THE TAMIL ARTISTS AND THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DANCE AND DRAMA

Description

This book analyses the history of music, dance and drama in Tamil country and how it responded to the changing needs of the times from medieval to modern. The survey reflects the stature and significance of performing arts and the meaningful dialogue developed besides the important accomplishments through European contacts. The author brings out a fresh critical approach on the life style of the musicians, dancers and actors besides the patrons in colonial context. The growing contributions by missionaries in sacred music and the role of the English East India Company to military music had been assessed. It explores the dance forms and drama genres, reformulation of the arts and expansion as a social device. It offers an extensive and very comprehensive account with the new facets of performance history.