{"id":808,"date":"2025-01-09T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/?page_id=808"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:39:15","slug":"volume-20-number-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-20-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 20, Number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Volume 20, Number 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature 1: \u201cThe Mythical Courtesan\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raitu Bidda (1939) - Part - 2\/4  Gudavalli Ramabrahmam\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kg5JsN7Am5c?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy this video clip from <em>Raitu bidda<\/em> (1939)&nbsp;discussed in Rumya Putcha&#8217;s Paula J. Giddings award winning article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/798678\">The Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India<\/a>.&#8221; Here we see the only remaining dance clip of Sundaramma in <em>Raitu bidda<\/em> (1939).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author explains: &#8220;In fact, most circulating versions of the films she sang or danced in, including the most readily available through the online archival project&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/indiancine.ma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indiancine.ma<\/a>, are missing scenes that feature her. The only circulating film in which some of her scenes are not cut out entirely is <em>Mala pilla<\/em>. This makes sense, to a degree, since her role is crucial to the trajectory of the love story. In the case of <em>Raitu bidda<\/em>, erasing a scene that featured Sundaramma also meant cutting out Ragaviah. In other words, to expunge the courtesan from the archive also meant deleting the Brahman guru.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You won&#8217;t find the scene featured in the article but you can still enjoy Sundaramma&#8217;s artistry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-space-between is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b2891da8 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-19-number-2\/\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/\">Back to &#8220;On the Line&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-20-number-2\/\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 20, Number 1 Feature 1: \u201cThe Mythical Courtesan\u201d Enjoy this video clip from Raitu bidda (1939)&nbsp;discussed in Rumya Putcha&#8217;s Paula J. Giddings award winning article &#8220;The Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India.&#8221; Here we see the only remaining dance clip of Sundaramma in Raitu bidda (1939). 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