Thesiss

Rasa, in a Javanese musical context, has many meanings that range from "affect," "feeling," and "inner meaning" to "perception," "understanding," and "intuition." Musicians use the word and its synonyms ubiquitously in evaluating music, and in describing what good performers and…

This study focuses on the ways in which various forms of embodied performances—dramatic, devotional, ritual, and dancing—engender bhāva in South Asia. Bhāva is variously understood as a mode of being, an emotional change, a disposition, a mode of distributed experience in relati…