Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-281) and index.
Contents:
Flows across the Chenab -- No mixing please! We are Indian -- Mann Panjab De: Fabricating authenticity -- Naqqal, Mimicry and the signifying monkey -- Global bazaar, local peddlers -- Desi Networks -- Cool guys, Desi Boyz and Panjabi Munde dance the Bhangra -- Performing the Panjabi body -- Bhangra nation -- Who speaks for the Jat?:Vernacular cosmopolitanisms.
Summary:
"Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybird music produced in Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. The 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."...[book cover]
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