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Sounds from the Other Side: Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A sixty-year history of Afro-South Asian musical
collaborations From Beyoncé's South Asian music-inspired
Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and
Alice Coltrane's use of Indian song structures and spirituality in
their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott's high-profile
collaborations with diasporic South Asian artists such as the
Panjabi MC and MIA, African American musicians have frequently
engaged South Asian cultural productions in the development of
Black music culture. Sounds from the Other Side traces
such engagements through an interdisciplinary analysis of the
political implications of African American musicians' South Asian
influence since the 1960s. Elliott H. Powell asks, what happens
when we consider Black musicians' South Asian sonic explorations as
distinct from those of their white counterparts? He looks to Black
musical genres of jazz, funk, and hip hop and examines the work of
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rick James, OutKast, Timbaland,
Beyoncé, and others, showing how Afro-South Asian music in the
United States is a dynamic, complex, and contradictory cultural
site where comparative racialization, transformative gender and
queer politics, and coalition politics intertwine. Powell situates
this cultural history within larger global and domestic
sociohistorical junctures that link African American and South
Asian diasporic communities in the United States. The long
historical arc of Afro-South Asian music in Sounds from the
Other Side interprets such music-making activities as highly
political endeavors, offering an essential conversation about
cross-cultural musical exchanges between racially marginalized
musicians.