Dis-Orienting Rhythms : The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music

Sanjay Sharma is Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. He has held research appointments at Indiana University, USA and served as Leverhulme Trust Visiting International Professor at the University of Dundee, UK. His research focuses on the social, cultural and economic history of modern South Asia, particularly famine, hunger, welfare, philanthropy, food security and market ethics. He received his PhD in History from SOAS, University of London. His publications include Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century (2001), along with articles and chapters on modern South Asian history.

John Hutnyk is currently Associate Professor in Sociology at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. In 2016 he was a Government of India GAIN scholar at Jadavpur University. Before that he was Visiting Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. In 2015 he was in InterCultural Studies at Nagoya City University Japan, and since 2014 was Visiting Researcher at RMIT University in Australia, and also in 2014 at Mimar Sinan University in Turkey. He has held visiting scholar posts in Germany at the South Asia Institute and Institute fur Ethnologie at Heidelberg University, and Visiting Professor posts at Zeppelin University and Hamburg University, Germany. For fourteen years he was at Goldsmiths University of London in Anthropology and since 2008 as Professor of Cultural Studies. Hutnyk is the author of The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996), Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (2000); Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies (2004); Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics (2014); and co-authored with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur: Diaspora and Hybridity (2005). Contact at: JohnHutnyk@tdtu.edu.vn).

Ashwani Sharma is the Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies at the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL). Ashwani is a founding editor of darkmatter journal http://www.darkmatter101.org where he has edited a number of special issues including on the TV series 'The Wire', and 'Post-racial Imaginaries'. He is the co-editor of Disorienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Music (1997). He writes and performs poetry, has worked in the BBC and independent film in sound, and has been an aeronautical engineer.