Music for Euro-Maoists: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among Pop Stars

Hutnyk, John. 2000. Music for Euro-Maoists: On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among Pop Stars. Theory, Culture & Society, 17(3), pp. 136-158. ISSN 0263-2764 [Article]

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This article takes up the appearance in the club circuits of Europe of cultural matter derived from radical peasant insurgency in West Bengal. It asks why the political content of cultural performance is so often glossed as exotica, and writes back some of the history of transnational, or internationalist, politics into this forum. Linking this to the celebrated Booker Prizewinning text of Arundhati Roy, and Gayatri Spivak's translations of Mahasweta Devi's writing, the contradictions of cultural politics are foregrounded.

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Article

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https://doi.org/10.1177/02632760022051266

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Centre for Cultural Studies (1998-2017)

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DateEvent
1 June 2000Published

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3559

Date Deposited:

17 Sep 2010 08:03

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25 Jun 2021 10:09

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Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/3559

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