Aims to produce a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. It focuses on the role that contemporary South Asian dance music has played in the formation of a new urban cultural politics.
Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity.
Looking comprehensively at the returnees' history and memory for the first time, this book contributes to debates about colonial racism and its afterlives.
This volume takes the discussion directly to the field of music studies in a broad frame and insists on examining music censorship in a global perspective.