Desi Music Vibes: The Performance of Indian Youth Culture in Chicago
1999; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/834279
ISSN1553-5630
Autores Tópico(s)Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
ResumoHere, desi music will refer to both bhangra-beat (a genre of Punjabi folk music remixed over Western dance club rhythms -- hip-hop, house, techno, etc.) and Hindi remixes (a genre combining Hindi film songs with similar dance club beats), both of which originate in Britain, and which scholars and journalists have often collapsed under the term bhangra. Desi music encompasses multiple fluid forms, heavily shaped by local contexts and tastes; a particularly local Chicago identity is produced by incorporating house music, an upbeat, repetitive dance club rhythm (Figure 2) that arose as an underground black dance music in Chicago in the 1980s. Chicago Desis thereby stake out a local space in the international diasporic Indian popular music scene.
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