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OverviewIn this text, 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 the intermingling of culture. What does it mean when Madonna dons a bindi or Kula Shaker incorporate sitar music in their retro hits? When Cherie Blair wears a sari to a public dinner? When the national dish in the UK is chicken tikka masala? Is this a celebration of multiculturalism or simply cultural appropriation? Hutnyk offers a political critique of the claims made in the name of hybridity and challenges the academic world to come out of its ivory tower and to engage in a critical debate around the real issues in cultural politics at the turn of the century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John HutnykPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.504kg ISBN: 9780745315546ISBN 10: 0745315542 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 November 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsAlliances 1. Dub Introduction 2. Adorno At Womad 3. Dog Tribe Appropriations 4. Magical Mystical Tourism 5. Authenticity Or Cultural Politics Internationalisms 6. Critique Of Postcolonial Marxisms 7. Naxalite 8. Conclusion IndexReviews'An enjoyable read. For Hutnyk, Asian pop represents a hybrid of the contemporary culture industry and old fashioned Orientalism which produces a transatlantic exotica' -- Mute 'Shows how musical production can claim a powerful position in anti-racist and internationalistic politics ... Hutnyk reminds us of the need to analyse pop culture not exclusively on the consumer level.' -- Sociological Review 'A wake-up call to armchair academics' -- Bakirathi Mani, Stanford University, USA 'A wake-up call to armchair academics' -- Bakirathi Mani, Stanford University, USA 'Shows how musical production can claim a powerful position in anti-racist and internationalistic politics ... Hutnyk reminds us of the need to analyse pop culture not exclusively on the consumer level.' -- Sociological Review 'An enjoyable read. For Hutnyk, Asian pop represents a hybrid of the contemporary culture industry and old fashioned Orientalism which produces a transatlantic exotica' -- Mute Author InformationJohn Hutnyk was Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London. He is the author of Bad Marxism (Pluto Press, 2004) and Critique of Exotica (Pluto Press, 2000). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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