Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music

Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the politics of the new Asian dance music (1996, Zed books), edited by Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk and Ash Sharma.
“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 [...]

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Noise of the Past

Noise of the Past Presents
A poetic journey of war, memory & dialogue

A Premier Launch Event:
Screening of Unravelling – A film by Kuldip Powar, with original score by Nitin Sawhney
Performance of Post-Colonial War Requiem –  composed & conducted by Francis Silkstone
A Special Opening by Martin Bell – OBE, UNICEF Ambassador
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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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