Examines a broad range of different traditions of music and dance in the service of romance: from the dancing and singing of South Indian devadasis (courtesans)

Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the abi

Why is music from the past significant today and how has it been transformed to suit new values and agendas? This volume examines the globally recurrent cultura

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a

This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India. The Dancing Body is a body that exists, sur