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[Anjali Gera] Roy's aim is to understand the distinction and interplay—both discordant and harmonious—between the current globalization-inspired wave of Bhangra music and its indigenous forms. The author carefully charts the complex history of this folk tradition and its subsequent transformations. . . . By examining Bhangra's evolution both within and beyond India, the author aligns her work with that of other scholars who have investigated the triadic relationship between culture, space, and identity. Roy is interested in both the uses and costs of visibility provided by global networks to marginalized groups. She is interested in how current Bhangra exponents benefit from global collaborations and exposure and whether they can influence the circulation of culture in the market at large. In this way, Roy joins a host of ethnographers attempting to evaluate how cultural practices alter hierarchies and power structures in the real world.
Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybrid music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. This is derived from a Punjabi harvest dance of the same name. This book looks at Bhangra's global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian subcontinent, to contribute to the understanding of emerging South Asian cultural practices such as Bhangra or Bollywood in multi-ethnic societies. It seeks to trace Bhangra's moves from Punjab and its 'return back' to look at the forces that initiate and regulate global flows of local texts and to ask how their producers and consumers redirect them to produce new definitions of culture, identity and nation. The critical importance of this book lies in understanding the difference between the present globalizing wave and previous trans-local movements. Gera Roy contrasts the frames of cultural imperialism with those of cultural invasion to show how Indian cultures have constantly reinvented themselves by cross-pollinating with 'invading' cultures such as Hellenic, Persian, Arabic and many others in the past. By looking at Bhangra's flows to and from India, the book revises the relation between culture, space and identity and challenges boundaries. It weighs both the uses and costs of visibility provided by global networks to marginalized groups in diverse localities and explores whether collaborations between Bhangra practitioners, largely of working class origin, give ordinary people any control over the circulation of culture in the global village. Finally, the book considers whether cultural practices can alter hierarchies and power structures in the real world. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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![]() GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)781.630954The arts Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Non-western popular music {equally instrumental and vocal} Biography And HistoryLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: Sense puntuar.Ets tu?Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing. |