Dis-Orienting Rhythms

John Hutnyk is currently Associate Professor in Sociology at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. In 2016 he was a Government of India GAIN scholar at Jadavpur University. Before that he was Visiting Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. In 2015 he was in InterCultural Studies at Nagoya City University Japan, and since 2014 was Visiting Researcher at RMIT University in Australia, and also in 2014 at Mimar Sinan University in Turkey. He has held visiting scholar posts in Germany at the South Asia Institute and Institute fur Ethnologie at Heidelberg University, and Visiting Professor posts at Zeppelin University and Hamburg University, Germany. For fourteen years he was at Goldsmiths University of London in Anthropology and since 2008 as Professor of Cultural Studies. Hutnyk is the author of The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996), Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (2000); Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies (2004); Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics (2014); and co-authored with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur: Diaspora and Hybridity (2005). Contact at: JohnHutnyk@tdtu.edu.vn). Ashwani Sharma is the Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies at the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL). Ashwani is a founding editor of darkmatter journal http://www.darkmatter101.org where he has edited a number of special issues including on the TV series ‘The Wire’, and ‘Post-racial Imaginaries’. He is the co-editor of Disorienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Music (1997). He writes and performs poetry, has worked in the BBC and independent film in sound, and has been an aeronautical engineer.

‘This singularly original contribution to the study of expressive cultures is essential reading.’ - Avtar Brah, University of London‘This passionately written and ground-breaking text is a timely addition to the growing corpus of post-colonial writings on music.’ - New Formations

• ContentsIntroduction1. Sounds Oriental: The (Im)possibility of theorising Asian musical cultures2. Noisy Asians or 'Asian noise'?3. Asian Kool?: Bhangra and beyond4. Re-mixing identities: Off the Turn-Table5. Psyche and soul: A view from the 'South'6. Re-sounding (anti)racism, or concordant politics?: The new Asian dance music and its Revolutionary Antecedents7. Repetitive beatings or criminal justice?8. Versioning terror: Jallianwala Bagh and the Jungle9. New paths for South Asian identity and musical creativity.