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 | | What this suggests is that if Junoon is hailed as "a significant" international band, promoting the ancient poetry of India, which might represent a pre-colonial, national voice, the band is, in fact, producing a hybrid which reflects and supports the hybridized voices of the Indians at Cornell who attended their concert. |
 | | Indeed, bands like Indus Creed and Junoon, in their attempts to infuse their music with "Indianness," provide exactly this type of "legitimizing narrative," which both lulls their listeners into a collective "hallucination" that their national voice is heard and that they do, indeed, speak to the world through this music. |
 | | As seen with Junoon and Indus Creed in India, the emergence of rock bands in the diaspora further confuses notions of identity, language, and nation. |
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