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Various: World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: India. - sound recording review
Rounder 1755 This new addition to Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection of Folk and Primitive Music was recorded by ethnomusicologist Alain Denielou between ......(Continue Reading) Dreams, dharma and Mrs. Doubtfire: exploring Hindi popular cinema via its "chutneyed" Western scripts
Abstract: The author introduces the popular films of Bombay--or of Bollywood, as it is familiarly know--via that industry's odd but practical proclivity ......(Continue Reading)Sex Appeal and Cultural Liberty: A Feminist Inquiry into MTV India
This essay discusses findings from an ethnographic study of MTV India. After a brief feminist analysis of MTV India's content, the main body of the essay ......(Continue Reading)The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)2004 Ad
This year, India hosted the Fourth World Social Forum and in so doing, utterly transformed it. On January 16, over 100,000 people gathered in Mumbai ......(Continue Reading)
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