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| | WESTERN ORIENTALS: CORNERSHOP, TALVIN SINGH, AND NEW HYBRID MUSIC FROM THE SOUTH-ASIAN DIASPORA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | As a writer and musician with Indian heritage, my aim is to unpack the idea of hybridity and present the multiple, often conflicting articulations of "east meets west" popular music from the diaspora as rich, polyvalent snapshots of mixed identity. |
 | | By identifying with film singers, Tijender chooses a genre of music that unites Indians through its universality, but is not exported to the west as its main cultural resource, as classical music is. In India, classical music was the music I experienced in tourist-oriented performances while film music was an inescapable part of the soundscape. |
 | | In western club music, especially at all-night "raves," the journey through time, across hours of stark beats and subtle samples and electronic beeps, is often made possible by a virtuosic DJ and designer drugs such as ecstasy and ketamine. |
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