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Dancing in Place: Mythopoetics and the Production of History in Kuchipudi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2018

Rumya S. Putcha
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In the twenty-first century, the term “kuchipudi” refers to a style of dance, a South Indian classical genre which, to the untrained eye, is indistinguishable from its better-known cousin, bharatanatyam. After India achieved Independence from the British in 1947, kuchipudi came to be known as a dance style synonymous with the Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh. Kuchipudi's metonymic status reveals a broader logic of linguistic, geographically grounded identitarianism; indeed, the dance known today as kuchipudi is said to hail from a physical place called Kuchipudi, an otherwise nondescript fanning village located about fifty kilometres southeast of Vijayawadain central Andhra Pradesh (see figure 1).

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 47 , 2015 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © 2015 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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