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Popular Indian South African music: division in diversity1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Melveen Jackson
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It is frequently claimed that cultural processes in South Asia are best understood as being informed by an ethos of ‘Unity in Diversity’. The same cannot be said for culture as it has been, and still is, experienced by Indian South Africans. Far from being the homogeneous group to which apartheid South Africa relegated Indian South Africans in 1948 for the purposes of political control, the ‘Community’, as it is euphemistically called by politicians of all kinds, is plagued by sectarianism and conflict. This contest engages individuals and genuine communities who are seeking to establish a freely chosen identity, economic stability and political status.

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Popular Music , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 1991 , pp. 175 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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