Global India and cultural space in Auckland’s performance scene

Booth, A

Global India and cultural space in Auckland’s performance scene

aut.conference.type	Oral Presentation - Paper Presentation
aut.researcher	Booth, Alison
dc.contributor.author	Booth, A
dc.contributor.editor	Chung, H
dc.contributor.editor	Clark, P
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-26T22:08:53Z
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-26T22:08:54Z
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-26T22:08:55Z
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-26T22:09:06Z
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-26T22:15:07Z
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-16T22:35:37Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-26T22:08:53Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-26T22:08:54Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-26T22:08:55Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-26T22:09:06Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-26T22:15:07Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-16T22:35:37Z
dc.date.copyright	2013-11-22
dc.date.issued	2013-11-22
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents recent ethnographic research that focuses on young, educated recent migrants from India who are creating cultural space through live performance events, Their emerging voices challenge the establish cultural performance environment and the conventional notions of “Indian” cultural identity in Auckland. The transcultural, transnational and diasporic nature of the performance environment they practice creates an alternative understanding of culture reflected in their event content as well as production practices. For these producers and performers hip hop and rock are as much a part of Indian identity as sitar or bharatanatyam. They grew up in an India that was post liberalisation when global popular culture entered India via radio, cassettes and satellite TV and since 1996, India MTV, a channel specialising in music, reality, and youth culture programming. The research demonstrates the shifting patterns of cultural flows (Hannerz, 1997) of ‘global’ Indian popular youth culture identity. This growing voice is actively seeks a place in Auckland’s cultural production market. Data was collected by interviewing producers and performers of in Auckland who are part of a growing global, transnational Indian performance scene. The case studies demonstrate various cultural perspectives based on individual understandings of India as a place they have lived, visited or vicariously experienced through family and the virtual world. They offer the various cultural perspectives of Auckland’s new ‘global India’ performers and producers who are transforming the content, practice, and place of Auckland’s Indian cultural performance scene.
dc.identifier.citation	20th NZASIA Biennial International Conference-Environment, Dis/location and Cultural Space held at University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, 2013-11-22 to 2013-11-24
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10292/6487
dc.publisher	Graduate School of Management, the University of Auckland
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dc.title	Global India and cultural space in Auckland’s performance scene
dc.type	Conference Contribution
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