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A sixty-year history of Afro-South Asian musical collaborations
From Beyonce's South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime
performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane's use of
Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and
Missy Elliott's high-profile collaborations with diasporic South
Asian artists such as the Panjabi MC and MIA, African American
musicians have frequently engaged South Asian cultural productions
in the development of Black music culture. Sounds from the Other
Side traces such engagements through an interdisciplinary analysis
of the political implications of African American musicians' South
Asian influence since the 1960s. Elliott H. Powell asks, what
happens when we consider Black musicians' South Asian sonic
explorations as distinct from those of their white counterparts? He
looks to Black musical genres of jazz, funk, and hip hop and
examines the work of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Rick James,
OutKast, Timbaland, Beyonce, and others, showing how Afro-South
Asian music in the United States is a dynamic, complex, and
contradictory cultural site where comparative racialization,
transformative gender and queer politics, and coalition politics
intertwine. Powell situates this cultural history within larger
global and domestic sociohistorical junctures that link African
American and South Asian diasporic communities in the United
States. The long historical arc of Afro-South Asian music in Sounds
from the Other Side interprets such music-making activities as
highly political endeavors, offering an essential conversation
about cross-cultural musical exchanges between racially
marginalized musicians.
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