Ashwani Sharma – författare

Essays and interviews on the cultural politics of South Asian music-making_x000D_/>_x000D_/>On the 30th anniversary of Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (1996) a pivotal book in British Asian music and cultural studies, Dis-Orient30: Music, Culture, Diaspora brings together original contributions from academic, creative and cultural workers. These essays, interviews and sound tracks take up, critique and expand Dis-Orienting approaches to the cultures and politics of South Asian music-making and listening._x000D_/>_x000D_/>This heterogenous collection guides readers through soundscapes and candid conversations on race, class, ethnicity, gender, nationalism, religion, exoticism, political Blackness, Brown sound, noise and voices._x000D_/>_x000D_/>Readers will step onto dance floors in Bangalore, London, and Los Angeles, enter recording studios in Bollywood and Vancouver, sound system spaces in Southall, play back Bengali mixtapes in London, Pothwari cassette messages in Manchester and Glasgow, tune in to community radio in Birmingham, rifle through record collections, trace samples, and hear from established and emergent artists.

Blurring the boundaries between academic and cultural production, this book produces a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. One of the first sustained attempts to situate such production within the study of race and identity, it uncovers the crucial role that contemporary South Asian dance music has played in the formation of a new urban cultural politics.The book opens by positing new theoretical understandings of South Asian cultural representation that move beyond essentialist ethnicity in the cultural studies literature. Contributors narrate the formation of South Asian expressive culture coming emerging from the highly charged context of UK Black politics. Part three assumes the task of historical recovery, looking at the antecedents of political South Asian musical performance, autonomous anti-racist organising and problems of alliance with the white Left. Part four engages with the movements and translations of cultural productions across the world - not just in Britain or South Asia, but also Canada, North America, Fiji, Malaysia, Australia, West Africa, Europe, but particularly in the fractured spaces of a postcolonial Britain in decline.

Discovery of one-dimensional material carbon nanotubes in 1991 by the Japanese physicist Dr. Sumio Iijima has resulted in voluminous research in the field of carbon nanotubes for numerous applications, including possible replacement of silicon used in the fabrication of CMOS chips. One interesting feature of carbon nanotubes is that these can be metallic or semiconducting with a bandgap depending on their diameter. In search of non-classical devices and related technologies, both carbon nanotube-based field-effect transistors and metallic carbon nanotube interconnects are being explored extensively for emerging logic devices and very large-scale integration. Although various models for carbon nanotube-based transistors and interconnects have been proposed in the literature, an integrated approach to make them compatible with the present simulators is yet to be achieved. This book makes an attempt in this direction for the carbon-based electronics through fundamentals of solid-state physics and devices.