Murthy, Dhiraj. 2010. Muslim punks online: A diasporic Pakistani music subculture on the Internet. South Asian Popular Culture, 8(2), pp. 181-194. ISSN 1474-6689 [Article]

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This article seeks to explore how Internet media is shaping transnationally-mediated South Asian music subcultures. Rather than serve as a literature review of new media and South Asian popular culture, this paper is especially interested in how particular music websites, discussion forums, social networking sites, and IP-based technologies in general are facilitating the creation of progressive South Asian virtual spaces. One particular South Asian musical scene, ‘Taqwacore’, a transnational Muslim punk music scene, is used as a case study. Reference is made to other non-Muslim diasporic South Asian musical scenes including Asian electronic music and Bhangra as well to contextualize Taqwacore. Ethnographic research (participant observation and interviewing) was conducted both online and offline using Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, blogs, discussion groups, and face-to-face meetings.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/14746681003797997
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event July 2010 Published
Item ID:	9302
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2013 22:28
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2014 09:55
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/9302

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