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"Make Way for the Indian": Bhangra Music and South Asian Presence in Toronto
To most of the outside world, Canadian culture appears to be a bipartite composition of unequal French and English elements, wherein francophones (all ......(Continue Reading) Community music - global music - Brief Article
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION They hail from London's East End, a rundown jumble of Victorian buildings and multistory apartments, home to many of the city's ......(Continue Reading)The British, invaded: a music documentary chronicles the rebellious rise of the "Asian underground" amidst England's social turmoil - culture
"Don't believe your fucking Gandhi films!"--Asian Dub Foundation State of Bengal's "Flight IC408" opens, predictably, in the air. The single was originally ......(Continue Reading)Asian Overground - Asian youth culture music - Brief Article
The contradictions of Europe's rage for ethnic exoticism take centre stage in an interview with Pandit G of Asian Dub Foundation, a UK band serving up a searing mix of jungle rhythms, rap and 'trad...(Continue Reading)The burden of the present: as racial tensions rise in South Africa, music has become the site of a nation's struggle for cultural and ethnic identity -
A frikaner men are not supposed to cry, especially not public. But it was during the evocative "Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika" part of South Africa's double-barrelled ......(Continue Reading)
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