Music for Euro-Maoists: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions amon Pop Stars.
In: Theory, Culture & Society, Jg. 17 (2000-06-01), Heft 3, S. 136-158
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The article focuses on the new audibility/visibility of Asian culture in the music scene of Great Britain. The ways in which South Asian cultural forms in Europe have been celebrated through circuits of popular media have a long pedigree. The popular narrative of western fascination for the East can be countered by recognition that India never was the sleepy spiritual fantasy of imperial imaginings. For some time it has been clear that the notion of India as esoteric paradise of spiritual and timeless tradition has been imported back into late imperial Great Britain. There are ways in which another version of fantasy South Asia is now deployed, to a greater or lesser extent as a strategic essentialism, and in a way that looks, at least from afar, as if the orientalist mind-set has been made more intimate. There is more to be said about the ways visibility on the cultural stage and the aestheticization of previously excluded "cultural matter" remains a mode of papering over economic and political differentiation and the exploitative coordinates of the disunited Great Britain.
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Music for Euro-Maoists: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions amon Pop Stars.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hutnyk, John |
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Zeitschrift: | Theory, Culture & Society, Jg. 17 (2000-06-01), Heft 3, S. 136-158 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2000 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0263-2764 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/02632760022051266 |
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