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Niranjana is clearly aware of the problem of the popular and seeks to situate her analysis through a historically driven account of diasporic identity formation. The once hesitant ethnographer, Niranjana, in the closing chapter repositions herself as a cultural interlocutor involved in re making musical connections and collaboration between India and Trinidad.
She brings together the musical practices of Remo Fernandez a premier Indian pop-star with Belfon and other Trinidadian artists. What could have easily resulted in a hackneyed academic attempt to politicize the fusions of Indo-Afro-Trinidadian music, is nonetheless reflexively fashioned in exploring the quotidian encounters and dissonances of cross-cultural dialogic exchange. Invariably, many books about music are unable to capture the performative modalities of its object of inquiry.
Theory and hermeneutic interpretation are endlessly liable to suffocate the dynamics of how the music actually works — its affective registers, temporaneous belongings and unruly identifications.
The project of Mobilizing India tends to avoid these kinds of shortcomings, while still maintaining a conceptual framework that can travel. This book is not simply about music, and needs to be read as an urgent intervention in studying comparative popular culture from a standpoint troubling the universalizing address of Western global modernities.
To listen to music clips of Drupatee and other artists, visit the Mobilizing India website. Tagged with globalization , migration , music. Subscribe to comments with RSS. It is great review.
Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between and comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population. Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad by Tejaswini Niranjana. KEITH E. MCNEAL. University of California.
But it is not whole India whole things. Music is from a part of India as well as women and migration.
Her book is certainly recommended reading for students and scholars of South Asian diasporas and Caribbean studies. There is always a danger of valorising individual artists and reading off a resistive or liberatory cultural politics. Subscribe to comments with RSS. Please direct permission requests for these images to permissions dukeupress. Sign up for Subject Matters email updates to receive discounts, new book announcements, and more. Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality 55 3. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:
If we look women then they migrate from West Bengal of India mostly. Like this music basically from Maharashtra and UP. It is migration situation of music and women from India. Then set up a personal list of libraries from your profile page by clicking on your user name at the top right of any screen. You also may like to try some of these bookshops , which may or may not sell this item.
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Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. She describes how contested ideas of Indian femininity are staged by contemporary Trinidadian musicians—male and female, of both Indian and African descent—in genres ranging from new hybrids like chutney-soca to the older but still vibrant music of Afro-Caribbean calypso.
She is the author of Siting Translation: Culture and Colonialism in India. Sign up for Subject Matters email updates to receive discounts, new book announcements, and more.
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