Book Review: The Art of Listening

Back, Les The Art of Listening, Berg 2007 210 pp.
British Journal of Sociology 59(3) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2008
On the front cover of The Art of Listening there is a striking picture of a woman called Donna. A musical score from Stevie Wonder’s song ‘Isn’t She Lovely?’ is tattooed [...]

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Telling Stories about Bhangra: A Short Review of the Soho Road to the Punjab Exhibition

Some notes based on a talk I gave at the Bhangra Symposium, School of African and Oriental Studies, 15 Sept 2007:
I’m interested in how we can tell the story of Bhangra. The majority of accounts about South Asian life in Britain have been invariably reductive: either an immigrant story of doing ’shit work’/racism [...]

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Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Review of Tejaswini Niranjana (2006) Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. London: Duke University Press.

This book rethinks diaspora and global modernities in the very considerations of the formation of Indo-Trinidadian music and identity. Tejaswini Niranjana’s wager is to
…contribute to the development of alternative frames of reference, so [...]

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