Critique of exotica : music, politics, and the culture industry / John Hutnyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutnyk, John, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Social aspects.

Popular music.

Popular music--Political aspects.

Popular culture--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this innovative book, John Hutnyk questions the meaning of cultural hybridity. Using the growing popularity of Asian culture in the West as a case study, he looks at just who benefits from this intermingling of culture. Focusing on music, race and politics, Hutnyk offers a cogently theorised critique of the culture industry. He looks at artists such as Asian Dub Foundation, FunDaMental and Apache Indian to see how their music is both produced and received. He analyses 'world' music festivals, racist policing and the power of corporate pop stars to market exotica across the globe. Throughout, Hutnyk provides a searing critique of a world that sells exotica as race relations and visibility as redress.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Part I: Alliances

1 Dub: Introduction

Notes 1-2

3-9

10-12

2 Adorno at Womad

Notes

3 'Dog-Tribe'

Notes 1-5

6-10

11

Part II: Appropriations

4 Magical Mystical Tourism

3-14

15-18

19-27

28-31

32

33-35

5 Authenticity or Cultural Politics?

Notes 1-10

11-15

Part III: Internationalisms

6 Critique of Postcolonial Marxisms

Notes 1-8

9-12

13-20

7 'Naxalite'

3-7

8-15

16-18

19-23

24-28

29-30

8 Conclusion: The Culture Industry

Notes 1-4

5-10

11-14

15-16

17-19

20

Bibliography

'Indipop' 131

'material girl'

4

9

90

114

120

121

212

2nd Generation 4

absolutism

37

40

43

Achanak 11

Adorno, Theodor

19

42

47-9

232

'secret omnipresence' of resistance 7

'secret omnipresence' of resistance 203

and music 221

and music 222-3

popular culture 28-30

Ahmad, Aijaz 146

Ali Khan, Nusrat Fatah

28

30

124

Ali, Quaddas 185

Ali, Tariq 156

alienation

93

95

150

All-India Coordinating Committee of Communist Revolutionaries [AICCCR] 195

alliance[s]

78

132

133

musical 42-9

Althusser, Louis 226

Amer Rafiq Defence Campaign

8

173-4

223

Amritsar 185

anarchism 155

Andhara Pradesh

191

194

Anokha

99

116

anthropology

10-13

142

145

167

168

Anti Nazi League [ANL]

55

68

73

74

154

155-61

Anti-Fascist Action [AFA]

162

anti-racism

6

7

66

154-8

'official' 162-3

'official' 164

'official' 167

'official' 216

and anti-capitalism 158

and anti-capitalism 160.

and anti-capitalism 165

and education 76

and education 80

and white left 142

and white left 154-6

and white left 157

and white left 160

and white left 161-2

calls for tolerance 79

feel-good statements 66-7

feel-good statements 80

self-defence 230

silencing of message 59-60

anti-terrorism, legislation 54-5

antiphony

41

Anushilan Samiti revolutionary group 190

Apache Indian

12

22

117

collaboration with Maxi Priest 10-11

cultural identity 229-30

Apna Sangeet 11

appropriation

24

117-21

126

Arranged Marriage [Apache Indian] 130

Arts Council funding 34

Asian bands

and cultural politics 69-70

and militancy 67-8

and militancy 72

Asian cultural production

50

182-3

218-19

Asian culture

authenticity 124

derivative 214

repackaged 116

repackaged 121

visibility 88

visibility 116

visibility 181

visibility 186

Asian Dub Foundation [ADF]

5

32-48

144

184-9

197-8

and authenticity 203-4

and commercial success 99

and commercial success 100

and commercial success 104

and commercial success 183

and Criminal Justice and Public Order Act [CJA] 52

and Criminal Justice and Public Order Act [CJA] 187

and globalisation 212-13

and hybridity 44

and hybridity 45

and media 45

and political identity 118

and politics 8

and politics 43-4

and politics 48

and politics 51

and politics 143

and politics 200

and self-defence 72-3

Community Music project 185.

Community Music project 186

Community Music project 231-2

Asian identity 77-8

Asian Kool

52

147

182

204

213

Asian musics

commercialisation 99-100

exposure through Womad festivals 22

in UK 99-100

Asian rap

23

Asian Underground

Asian youth

criminalisation of 72

culture 50-1

politicisation of 56

Asian Youth Movement

Asian-America

118-19

135

assimilation

Association of Communist Workers 175

Atlas, Natasha

21

Attenborough, Richard 92

Aurora-Madan, Sonya

59

60

160

authenticity

8-9

124-9

nostalgia for 52

racial 19-20

racial 37

Azaad 11

Back, Les 10-11

Bambury, Chris 157

Band Aid 26

Bandyopadhyay, Samik 197

Banerjea, Koushik

Banerjee, Sumanta

193

197

Bangaladesh

166

Concert for 92

Concert for 151

Barthes, Roland 142

Basu, Jyoti 193

Battle of Park Lane 52

Bauls of Bengal 23

Baumann, Gerd 11

Beatles

92

127

Bengal

180

famine 191

Bengali music

Bengali Revolutionary Party, Jugantar 190

Benn, Melissa 147

Bhabha, Homi

34

bhangra

10-11

47

129

134

purism 118

Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP]

187

Bidrohi [N. Islam] 44

Bilga, T.S.

148

151

bindi, universal fashion item

88

94

125

Birmingham

146-7

Birmingham Indian Workers Association 175

Black Atlantic [Gilroy]

38

Black Film Bulletin 38

Black Flag anarchists 175

black music, commodification of 20

Black Panther Party 124

black popular culture

34-5

37-8

40-1.

Black Star Liner 100

Black White [Asian Dub Foundation] 202

black youth, targeted by police

64

75-6

blackness

and Asian culture 41

and Asian culture 50

constructedness of 33-4

Blur 183

body piercing

Bonnett, Alastair 158

Borodin, Michael 190

Bose, Subhas Chandra

190

Bosnia, relief aid 26

Bowie, David

106

Boy George 116

Bradford, racist violence 60

Brah, Harpal 163

Bretton Woods organisations

170

171

Brian Douglas Campaign 78

Brick Lane

158-9

202

British Board of Film Classification 59

British East India Company 91

British National Party [BNP]

56

58

130-1

163

banning of 68-9

banning of 165

council seat 159

council seat 161

Brockwell Park

159

161

Burnsalls strikers, Birmingham

148-9

173

Butler, Mark 61

Buzzcocks 156

Calcutta 195

Campaign Against Militarism 67

capitalism

35

151-2

226-7

and 'credit-baiting' 166

and differences 123

and labour 102-3

and labour 226

crises 227-8

equal exchange 102

equal exchange 103-5

equal exchange 125

equal exchange 132

global 79

global 133

global 141

global 170

global 225

intensification of 42

subsumption 78

subsumption 105

subsumption 122

subsumption 130

subsumption 132

subsumption 169

transition to 101-2

CARF [Campaign against Racism and Fascism]

Castells, Manuel 43

Chadha, Gurinder 127

Chambers, Iain

125-7

Chandrasonic 185

Charterhouse Posse 175

Chatterjee, Partha

195

225

Chaudhury, Sushital Ray 195

Chen Kuan-Hsing 219

Cheops, Great Pyramid of 95-6

China

152

183

Chow, Rey.

114

115

118

Chumbawumba 227

cinema

217

226

Clapton, Eric 155

Clash 156

class, and race 163-4

Cleaver, Harry 104

Clifford, James 41-2

Coca-Cola corporation 124

Cohen, Philip 76

colonialism

dismantling 132

legacy of 115-16

Columbia Records 31

Combat

18 56

Comintern

commercialisation, and authenticity 203-4

Communist Party of China [CPC]

186

196

Communist Party of Great Britain [CPGB]

162-3

164

165

175

Communist Party of India Marxist [CPI[M]]

199

Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist [CPI[ML]]

Communist Party of India [CPI]

189

192-3

Communist Party [CPC]

community defence

65-81

and raising awareness 72-4

and surveillance 72

and surveillance 77

and vigilantism 70-2

and violence 76

dysfunctional aspects of 77

lack of support for 76

monitoring racial attacks 72

need for 66-7

need for 81

organising 74-5

Community Music

185

complicity

231

233

Condon, Paul

75

Congress party 197

Congress Socialists 191

Conservative party, and racial violence 61-2

Cornershop

143

Costello, Elvis

156

cottage capitalism 25

creativity, industrialisation of 222

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act [CJA]

51-5

60-5

79

acquiescence of intellectuals 54-5

acquiescence of intellectuals 65

acquiescence of intellectuals 75-6

acquiescence of intellectuals 79

and asylum rights 99

and institutionalised racism 59

and new authoritarianism 80

and racism 54

and racism 55

and racism 58.

and racism 61.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.

ISBN:

9781849640770

1849640777

OCLC:

70769154