From powwow chanting to dubstep to throat singing to rap – enjoy a new generation of Indigenous artists, who are intertwining bits of contemporary music with ancient Indigenous traditions, for powerful anthems of cultural identity.
From Beyoncés colonial stagings in mainstream pop to the ethical problems of Western people «documenting» non-Western cultures.
Response by Fatima-Zahra LakrissaSpeaking from the perspective of a researcher in art history and curatorial practitioner in Morocco, our author considers the idea of experimentation as one of the central aspects of Gilles Aubry’s book «Sawt, Bodies, Species».
Interview by Geetanjali KaltaA conversation with the Delhi-based ensemble Chaar Yaar / Faqiri Quartet about the ensemble, language, translation, Sufi poetry, listening to histories, and songs of love, joy, and collectivity in times of divisiveness.
Film by Abhishek MathurAbhishek Mathur, a musician in an ensemble band himself, ventures out to spend a day with a ceremonious gathering of brass bands. He reflects on the tensions and contradictions layering the multidimensional worlds of bandsmen and the sonic explosions that they create.