File spoon-archives/seminar-12.archive/transl-asia_1997/seminar-12.9704, message 23


Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 12:10:12 -0800
From: John Hutnyk <John.hutnyk-AT-man.ac.uk>
Subject: urgh.Sadie


Hi folks

An example of the kind of rant that can be found on the Bhangra page
(which is an otherwise neat site). THis one from one Sadie MacFarlane or
some such:

http://sadieo.ucsf.edu/Music/bhangra.html

BHANGRA! 

[Portions of this article appeared previously in SF Weekly.]

Ever since Gandhi, Britons have been embracing certain aspects of East
Indian culture (like Vindaloo and Bhangra) with relish (or possibly
chutney). Like Vindaloo, Bhangra has passed through the collective
digestive tract of the United Kingdom and emerged profoundly changed.
Unlike Vindaloo, Bhangra will only keep you up all night in order to
dance. 

In discos and Legion posts from Birmingham to Vancouver, thousands of
the scions and scionesses of Punjabi immigrants pay slavish devotion to
bands and producers the mainstream music biz has barely heard of. The
dancing is an exuberant and elegant (yes, it can be done!) hybrid of
traditional Indian and hip hop, and the music is a virtually atomic
fusion...

it continues on in a simila manner.... at
http://sadieo.ucsf.edu/Music/bhangra.html


HJhon
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