A South Asian American diasporic aesthetic community? Ethnicity and New York City's 'Asian electronic music' scene

Ethnicities

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 225-247

  Murthy, Dhiraj ^a  

^a EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asian identity; Diaspora; Essentialism; Exoticism; South Asian popular culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248656760     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796807076847     Document Type: Article

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