It's Not Fusion: Hybridity in the Music of Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa
Description:
This thesis concerns the performance of identity in the music of Indian American jazz musicians Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer. In combining the use of Indian classical music elements with jazz, Iyer and Mahanthappa create music that is inextricably tied to their multifaceted identities. Traditional musicological analysis is juxtaposed with a theoretical framework that draws on postcolonial theory and the history of Asian immigrant populations to the U.S. I chronicle the interactions betwee…
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Date:
December 2012
Creator:
Govind, Arathi
Partner:
UNT Libraries