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A performance of a dance work by a company specialising in contemporary British Indian dance, looking at conceptions of cultural identity. The performance incorporates into its structure comments by...
A sequence of sections on music including: music from Mali and Nepal; the Eton Choir Book; composing for films; Indian music; Sundanese gamelan; historical keyboard instruments
Explores the three basic principles of ancient Indian theatre and dance: rhythm, shape and expression. Uses demonstration group of junior school dancers and another of secondary school dancers. Highlights...
Looks at the history of the persecution by European settlers of the American Indian nations. In two parts: 1) Wildnerness; Shows how Puritan prejudices helped to generate false views of Indians; 2)...
Extracts from a radio interview with the West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Derek Walcott applies an inventive use of language in his plays and...
Concentrates on a range of artefacts and visual materials, including a medal, a tomahawk, a peace-pipe, paintings, lithographs and photographs. These sources tell us something of actual events and give...
An autobiographical study of 25 years of the life of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with...
Charts the life of self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan from his roots in rural India to his work in pure mathematics at Cambridge University. Discusses Ramanujam’s relationship with...
Based around the training of the 15th Punjab regiment, this film extols the benfits of life in the British army. Importantly the harmonious mixing of different Indian cultural traditions is emphasised. The...
Shot in India, the programme looks at the British-Indian relationship from an Indian perspective, tracing the history of one Indian poem, ‘Radhika Santwanam’, from the 18th century to Independence. In...
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