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.
Courting angst is always an unsettling business but rarely more so than when the flirtation is a salve for other types of meaning. In an age of short termism, where the quick fix is king, there’s something almost quaint about…
Review of: Tejaswini Niranjana (2006) Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. London: Duke University Press.
Review can be read at anti-babel. (Due to copyright restrictions, this article can only appear on the reviewer’s own website).
Something unusual happened yesterday in a city built largely on the artifice of celebrity. Millionaire heiress and ‘Simple Life’ star, Paris Hilton was led screaming from an LA courtroom to an uncertain future and the possibility of actually completing her…
Hip-Hop has emerged as a serious area of study in the US. This article in the San Francisco Chronicle – ACADEMIC HIP-HOP? YES, YES Y’ALL by Reyhan Harmanci gives a useful overview of the rise of Hip-Hop studies in the…
A collection of papers of the Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics panel presented at the European Social Forum ESF 2004, 16th Oct, Alexander Palace, London. Organised by Feminist Review in collaboration with SCONVEGNO, NextGenderation, BSA Race Forum, and the Torina…
