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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) 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)Grannie doesn't skip a bhangra beat - once the music of Punjabi peasants, bhangra has been transformed into popular music embraced by Indian youth
Sudhanva Deshpande [*] A lighthearted look at how elite youth "dig" their roots through expatriate relations The hi-fl is playing Bruce Springsteen, ......(Continue Reading)Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures
Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. Edited by Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. 279 pp. $22.95 (pbk), $45.00...(Continue Reading)Theater and martial arts in West Sumatra: Randai and silek of the minangkabau. & When the body becomes all eyes: Paradigms, discourses, and practices of
Kirstin Pauka. Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra: Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1998. xii, 231pp.(Appendices), ......(Continue Reading)
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