Sonideros on the Sidewalks: Bring on the Revelry (2012) [Spanish]
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, dance music, ethnomusicology, mexico, music, street art
A collection of texts and photographs dedicated to the soundsystem culture of sonidero movement in Mexico.
El Proyecto Sonidero nace en 2008 con el fin de reconocer la potencia del movimiento sonidero como respuesta creativa, que opera como una plataforma transnacional de expresión, innovación, mediación, participación y comunicación para amplios sectores de México y América. Este es el territorio que explora nuestro trabajo con la comunidad de sonideros, los espacios culturales y los ámbitos académicos y artísticos. Juntos producimos conocimientos y acontecimientos.
EPS reúne a antropólogos, etnomusicólogos, promotores, sonideros, productores, fotógrafos, documentalistas y artistas de México, Estados Unidos, Colombia, Brasil, Bolivia, España y Argentina. Su base está en la ciudad de México.Po
Sonideros en las aceras, véngase la gozadera
Edited by Mariana Delgado, Marco Ramírez Cornejo and Livia Radwanski
Publisher Tumbona Ediciones, 2012
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License 3.0
230 pages
via Mariana
Book website
Summary and photographs by Livia Radwanski (in Spanish and English)
Mariana Delgado about sonideros (Vice, 2008, in English)
Mariana Delgado about Polymarchs posters (Furtherfield, May 2014, in English)
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See also a short documentary about Polymarchs, the electronic/disco side of the sonidero culture (12 min, 2014, English subs, added on 2014-9-6)
Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk, Ashwani Sharma (eds.): Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · asia, dance music, dub, jungle, music, music history, reggae, remix
Blurring the boundaries between academic and cultural production, this book produces a new understanding of the world significance of South Asian culture in multi-racist societies. One of the first sustained attempts to situate such production within the study of race and identity, it uncovers the crucial role that contemporary South Asian dance music has played in the formation of a new urban cultural politics.
The book opens by positing new theoretical understandings of South Asian cultural representation that move beyond essentialist ethnicity in the cultural studies literature. Contributors narrate the formation of South Asian expressive culture coming emerging from the highly charged context of UK Black politics. Part three assumes the task of historical recovery, looking at the antecedents of political South Asian musical performance, autonomous anti-racist organising and problems of alliance with the white Left. Part four engages with the movements and translations of cultural productions across the world – not just in Britain or South Asia, but also Canada, North America, Fiji, Malaysia, Australia, West Africa, Europe, but particularly in the fractured spaces of a postcolonial Britain in decline.
Publisher Zed Books, 1996
ISBN 1856494705, 9781856494700
248 pages