Remembered Rhythms: Issues of Diaspora and Music in India

by Shubha Chaudhuri

Remembered Rhythms explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, the essays range across the musical traditions of the Indian Diaspora in Trinidad, the role of Hindi film music in the Diaspora, the music of the African and Jewish diasporas in India to more general issues at the heart of contemporary Diaspora studies. This volume is accompanied by an audio CD.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 6, 2007