TY - JOUR

T1 - Music, space, identity

T2 - geographies of youth culture in Bangalore

AU - Saldanha, Arun

PY - 2002

Y1 - 2002

N2 - This article begins from a perceived lack of empirical evidence in cultural studies, namely the ethnography of cultural globalization in ‘global cities’ other than those of the West. Youth culture among the upper strata of the South-Indian metropolis Bangalore is taken as an instance of how mod- ernity is experienced and produced in the post-colonial Third World. The focus lies on the reception of Western pop music, but music is treated broadly as a practice situated in, and producing, real and imagined space. Two examples of these musical practices serve to elaborate on Indian power relations, Indian modernity and the critical geography of music.

AB - This article begins from a perceived lack of empirical evidence in cultural studies, namely the ethnography of cultural globalization in ‘global cities’ other than those of the West. Youth culture among the upper strata of the South-Indian metropolis Bangalore is taken as an instance of how mod- ernity is experienced and produced in the post-colonial Third World. The focus lies on the reception of Western pop music, but music is treated broadly as a practice situated in, and producing, real and imagined space. Two examples of these musical practices serve to elaborate on Indian power relations, Indian modernity and the critical geography of music.

KW - globalisation

KW - youth culture

KW - music

KW - urban geography

KW - cultural identity

KW - India

U2 - 10.1080/09502380210128289

DO - 10.1080/09502380210128289

M3 - Journal article

VL - 16

SP - 337

EP - 350

JO - Cultural Studies

JF - Cultural Studies

SN - 0950-2386

IS - 3

ER -