Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501385988)

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practiceszooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South Asian dance music and investigates sound as part of a wider assemblage of cultural technologies, politics and practices. Carla J. Maier investigates how sounds from Hindi film music tunes or bhangra tracks have been sampled, cut, looped and manipulated, thus challenging and complicating the cultural politics of sonic production. Rather than conceiving of music as a representation of fixed cultures, this bookengages in a study of music that disrupts the ways in which ethnicity has been written into sound and investigates how transcultural sound practices generate new ways of thinking about culture.

Author: Carla J. Maier
ISBN-10: 1501385984
ISBN-13: 9781501385988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d