Blurring the boundaries between academic and cultural production, this book produces a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. One of the first sustained attempts to situate such production within the study of race and identity, it uncovers the crucial role that contemporary South Asian dance music has played in the formation of a new urban cultural politics. The book opens by positing new theoretical understandings of South Asian cultural representation that move ...
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Blurring the boundaries between academic and cultural production, this book produces a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. One of the first sustained attempts to situate such production within the study of race and identity, it uncovers the crucial role that contemporary South Asian dance music has played in the formation of a new urban cultural politics. The book opens by positing new theoretical understandings of South Asian cultural representation that move beyond essentialist ethnicity in the cultural studies literature. Contributors narrate the formation of South Asian expressive culture coming emerging from the highly charged context of UK Black politics. Part three assumes the task of historical recovery, looking at the antecedents of political South Asian musical performance, autonomous anti-racist organising and problems of alliance with the white Left. Part four engages with the movements and translations of cultural productions across the world - not just in Britain or South Asia, but also Canada, North America, Fiji, Malaysia, Australia, West Africa, Europe, but particularly in the fractured spaces of a postcolonial Britain in decline.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9781856494700.
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VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) White paper over boards, color illustrated front cover with black lettering; 248 pp; bw illustrations. "This book writes back the presence of South Asian youth into a rapidly expanding and exuberant music scene; and celebrates this as a dynamic expression of the experience of diaspora with an urgent political consciousness. One of the first attempts to situate such production within the study of race and identity, it uncovers the crucial role that South Asian dance musics-from Hip-hop, Qawwali and Bhangra through Soul, Indie and Jungle-have played in a new urban cultural politics. In opposing all-too-easy 'world music' categorizations, the contributors demonstrate throughout how the liberal alibi of multiculturalism can be challenged across the line of music and politics. The book as a whole is committed to political engagement that does not reduce popular culture to the scrutinized Other or simply celebrate new expressive cultures as fragmented and hybrid. For a Black politics-this book is required reading for students and academics in cultural studies and social theory; as well as for everyone engaged in anti-imperialist, anti-racist struggles."-Rear cover. Contents: Sounds Oriental: the (im)possibility of theorizing Asian musical cultures /; Ashwani Sharma--; Noisy Asians of 'Asian noise'? /; Sanjay Sharma--; Asian kool? Bhangra and Beyond /; Rupa Huq--; Remixing indentities: 'off' the turntable /; Shirin Housee and Mukhtar Dar--; Psyche and soul: a view from the 'south' /; Koushik Banerjea and Partha Banerjea--; Re-sounding (anti)racism, or concordant politics? Revolutionary antecedents /; Virinder S. Kalra, John Hutnyk and Sanjay Sharma--; Repetitive bearings or criminal justice? /; John Hutnyk--; Versioning terror: Jallianwala Bagh and the jungle /; Koushik Banerjea and Jatinder Barn--; New paths for South Asian identity and musical creativity /; Raminder Kaur and Virinder S. Kalra.
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