Description
'Illicit' dance in India.
'Illicit' dance in India.
Series: | Thinking allowed; Series 2014 |
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First transmission date: | 2014-05-14 |
Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 4 |
Published: | 2014 |
Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
Duration: | 00:30:00 |
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Producer: | Jayne Egerton |
Presenter: | Laurie Taylor |
Contributors: | Anna Morcom; Ian Morris; Laurie Taylor |
Publisher: | BBC Open University |
Footage description: | Laurie Taylor talks to Anna Morcom, Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, about her extensive research into marginalised dancers in contemporary South Asia. From bar dancers to transgender erotic performers, she has chronicled their relationship with 'legitimate' performing arts; their struggles against stigma and the ways in which post colonial nation building has excluded these 'non elite' carriers of culture. Also, can war ever be a force for good? The historian, Ian Morris, argues that war, as well as provoking countless deaths & horrors, has also, in the very long term, allowed us to create peaceful societies. |
Production number: | AUDA903B |
Available to public: | no |