Comic Performance in Pakistan : The Bhand

Name: Comic Performance in Pakistan
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137566300
Price: 18000 KES
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ISBN: 9781137566300

1st ed. 2017

by Claire Pamment

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Format Hardback

Book Series Palgrave Studies in Comedy

ISBN-10 1137566302

ISBN-13 9781137566300

Edition 1st ed. 2017

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 7th, 2017

Print length 229 Pages

Product Classification: Asia Middle East Performing arts: comedy Comedy and stand-up

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This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings. With irreverent repartee, genealogical prowess, a topsy-turvy play with hierarchies and shape shifting, the low-status bhand jostles space in otherwise rigid class and caste hierarchies. Tracing these negotiations in both historical and contemporary sites, the author unfolds a dynamic performance mode that travels from the Sanskrit jester and Sufi wise fool, into Muslim royal courts and households, weddings, contemporary carnivalesque and erotic popular Punjabi theatre and satellite television news. Through original historical and ethnographic research, this book brings to life hitherto unexplored territories of Pakistani popular culture and Indo-Muslim performance histories.

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