Rajinder Dudrah
Biographic Data
| ID | 253141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajinder Dudrah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajinder |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudrah |
| SIGNATURE | DUDRAH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0295-724X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die
No Time To Die (2021) saw the arrival of a Black British 007 as protagonist in the James Bond film franchise. The Black 007 Nomi was played by Black British actress Lashana Lynch with diasporic ethnic and cultural connections to Jamaica. These references are taken up in the film in the context of a late-modern postcolonial Britain. No Time To Die is an interesting case in the Bond film franchise and in scholarly studies of James Bond as it allows…
Special issue introduction: Craft economies and inequalities
Craft as a creative industry has received increased public, academic and policy attention in recent years. However, this tends to centre on a Westernised, white, middle-class version of craft practice associated with values of authenticity, the valorisation of the handmade, and ‘hipster’ culture. At the same time, despite a rich body of work on inequalities in the cultural industries, some of which is published in this journal, little attention h…
The Geri-Actions of the Aging Amitabh Bachchan
Geri-action as a term within film studies describes a subgenre of action cinema in which, largely though not exclusively, men in their middle ages partake in narratives of action and spectacle, whilst simultaneously dealing with issues of aging bodies that participate in a move, or not as the case might be, towards some sort of an idea of retirement. This article explores how we might make the term work for us critically and discernibly in film, …
Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto
Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educato…
Designing (post)colonial knowledge: Imagining South Asia
This special issue of South Asian Popular Culture was inspired by the existing and emerging work on interdisciplinarity and design. Conversations among Amit S. Rai, Priya Jha, and Rajinder Dudrah o
The evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema
The history of Hindi cinema is in many ways the history of song and dance. Put another way, the evolution of Hindi cinema can perhaps most accurately be seen through its song and dance. Since the a
Balle-Balle, Balle-Balle”: Fashion – British bhangra style
This article explores the fashion and style politics that can be found in the development of British bhangra music: a post-war song and dance genre that fuses elements of Punjabi lyrics and traditional South Asian instruments with global music including pop, disco, RNB, reggae, dance, grime and Bollywood. Existing research on this genre has primarily been presented in terms of musical and lyrical analysis as well as the politics of identity forma…
Special issue on South Asian creative and cultural industries
Citizen Khan or citizen can't? Dossier on popular culture: Introduction
This special dossier of shorter essays turns to an issue at the BBC during the late summer of 2012, which attracted controversy amongst both Asian media consumers and mainstream television viewers
Playing through time and space: Sport and South Asian diasporas
Sitting at her dining table, Aneet, a female Sikh American doctor, shared her experiences of living in Nashville, Tennessee. At various points during the interview her 6′5′′ son, Rajeet, and her 5′1
Theorizing World Cinema
The 1970s and its legacies in India's cinemas
South Asian cinemas: Widening the lens
In 1985, when scholarship on South Asian cinema was still scant and most of the non-trade press was scathingly dismissive, Rosie Thomas made a claim for viewing Indian cinema on its own terms. Thom
Intermedia emergence: The fourth screen
We live today, in the Diaspora, and on the subcontinent enwrapped in increasingly instantaneous media flows. Yet this is not a more complex media ecology than that which prior generations experienc
Enter the Queer Female Diasporic Subject
Zee Tv: Diasporic non‐terrestrial television in Europe1
The Zee TV channel is introduced and analyzed through a framework of textual analysis that pays attention to its emergence amidst an historical overview of minority ethnic representation in the Western European media. The article also draws on qualitative interviews undertaken in the city of Birmingham (UK) with Zee TV viewers, and focuses on two of the channel's programmes – Your Zindagi and Eruo Zindagi. It is argued that both programmes aim to…
Bollywood Audiences Editorial1
Diasporicity in the City of Portsmouth (UK): Local and Global Connections of Black Britishness
This article engages with the theoretical premise of diasporicity - the local/regional specificities and workings of a given diaspora. Diasporicity is an attempt to extend the vocabulary of the concept of diaspora as an intervention against fixed ideas of race and nation. The article tests the usefulness of some aspects of 'diasporicity' by applying them to the settlement of African, Caribbean and South Asian Black British groups in Portsmouth, U…
Drum'n'dhol 1: British bhangra music and diasporic South Asian identity formation
British bhangra is a genre of British popular music fusing Punjabi lyrics and the beats of the Indian drum, the dhol, with black music genres and British pop sounds, producing an urban anthem and commentary about the lives of its British South Asian audiences. This article draws on qualitative research and interviews undertaken in Birmingham in the UK. It outlines how diasporic South Asian identities are made sense of through a conception of the …
Birmingham (UK): Constructing city spaces through Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere
Drawing on qualitative research undertaken in the city of Birmingham, Britain's second city in terms of geographical size and with the largest number of Black people outside of London, this article engages with Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere. The author argues that paying attention to Black public life in the urban centres of Britain provides cues and signs of the importance of popular cultural activity generated by Black Brit…
Zee TV-Europe and the construction of a pan-European South Asian identity
The present article offers a textual analysis of the audio-visual possibilities of the non-terrestrial Zee TV-Europe channel in facilitating South Asian Diaspora identities and representations of belonging in Western Europe. In particular it focuses on Your Zindagi and Euro Zindagi, two of the channel's programmes that aim to address European South Asians. It is argued that Zee TV-Europe is creating an alternative version and vision of national a…
Zee TV-Europe and the construction of a pan-European South Asian identity
The present article offers a textual analysis of the audio-visual possibilities of the non-terrestrial Zee TV-Europe channel in facilitating South Asian Diaspora identities and representations of belonging in Western Europe. In particular it focuses on Your Zindagi and Euro Zindagi, two of the channel's programmes that aim to address European South Asians. It is argued that Zee TV-Europe is creating an alternative version and vision of national a…
Drum'n'dhol 1: British bhangra music and diasporic South Asian identity formation
British bhangra is a genre of British popular music fusing Punjabi lyrics and the beats of the Indian drum, the dhol, with black music genres and British pop sounds, producing an urban anthem and commentary about the lives of its British South Asian audiences. This article draws on qualitative research and interviews undertaken in Birmingham in the UK. It outlines how diasporic South Asian identities are made sense of through a conception of the …
Birmingham (UK): Constructing city spaces through Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere
Drawing on qualitative research undertaken in the city of Birmingham, Britain's second city in terms of geographical size and with the largest number of Black people outside of London, this article engages with Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere. The author argues that paying attention to Black public life in the urban centres of Britain provides cues and signs of the importance of popular cultural activity generated by Black Brit…
Playing through time and space: Sport and South Asian diasporas
Sitting at her dining table, Aneet, a female Sikh American doctor, shared her experiences of living in Nashville, Tennessee. At various points during the interview her 6′5′′ son, Rajeet, and her 5′1
Zee Tv: Diasporic non‐terrestrial television in Europe1
The Zee TV channel is introduced and analyzed through a framework of textual analysis that pays attention to its emergence amidst an historical overview of minority ethnic representation in the Western European media. The article also draws on qualitative interviews undertaken in the city of Birmingham (UK) with Zee TV viewers, and focuses on two of the channel's programmes – Your Zindagi and Eruo Zindagi. It is argued that both programmes aim to…
The evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema
The history of Hindi cinema is in many ways the history of song and dance. Put another way, the evolution of Hindi cinema can perhaps most accurately be seen through its song and dance. Since the a
Special issue on South Asian creative and cultural industries
Drum'n'dhol 1: British bhangra music and diasporic South Asian identity formation
British bhangra is a genre of British popular music fusing Punjabi lyrics and the beats of the Indian drum, the dhol, with black music genres and British pop sounds, producing an urban anthem and commentary about the lives of its British South Asian audiences. This article draws on qualitative research and interviews undertaken in Birmingham in the UK. It outlines how diasporic South Asian identities are made sense of through a conception of the …
Birmingham (UK): Constructing city spaces through Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere
Drawing on qualitative research undertaken in the city of Birmingham, Britain's second city in terms of geographical size and with the largest number of Black people outside of London, this article engages with Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere. The author argues that paying attention to Black public life in the urban centres of Britain provides cues and signs of the importance of popular cultural activity generated by Black Brit…
Zee TV-Europe and the construction of a pan-European South Asian identity
The present article offers a textual analysis of the audio-visual possibilities of the non-terrestrial Zee TV-Europe channel in facilitating South Asian Diaspora identities and representations of belonging in Western Europe. In particular it focuses on Your Zindagi and Euro Zindagi, two of the channel's programmes that aim to address European South Asians. It is argued that Zee TV-Europe is creating an alternative version and vision of national a…
Diasporicity in the City of Portsmouth (UK): Local and Global Connections of Black Britishness
This article engages with the theoretical premise of diasporicity - the local/regional specificities and workings of a given diaspora. Diasporicity is an attempt to extend the vocabulary of the concept of diaspora as an intervention against fixed ideas of race and nation. The article tests the usefulness of some aspects of 'diasporicity' by applying them to the settlement of African, Caribbean and South Asian Black British groups in Portsmouth, U…
Zee Tv: Diasporic non‐terrestrial television in Europe1
The Zee TV channel is introduced and analyzed through a framework of textual analysis that pays attention to its emergence amidst an historical overview of minority ethnic representation in the Western European media. The article also draws on qualitative interviews undertaken in the city of Birmingham (UK) with Zee TV viewers, and focuses on two of the channel's programmes – Your Zindagi and Eruo Zindagi. It is argued that both programmes aim to…
Bollywood Audiences Editorial1
Enter the Queer Female Diasporic Subject
South Asian cinemas: Widening the lens
In 1985, when scholarship on South Asian cinema was still scant and most of the non-trade press was scathingly dismissive, Rosie Thomas made a claim for viewing Indian cinema on its own terms. Thom
Intermedia emergence: The fourth screen
We live today, in the Diaspora, and on the subcontinent enwrapped in increasingly instantaneous media flows. Yet this is not a more complex media ecology than that which prior generations experienc
Theorizing World Cinema
The 1970s and its legacies in India's cinemas
Citizen Khan or citizen can't? Dossier on popular culture: Introduction
This special dossier of shorter essays turns to an issue at the BBC during the late summer of 2012, which attracted controversy amongst both Asian media consumers and mainstream television viewers
Playing through time and space: Sport and South Asian diasporas
Sitting at her dining table, Aneet, a female Sikh American doctor, shared her experiences of living in Nashville, Tennessee. At various points during the interview her 6′5′′ son, Rajeet, and her 5′1
Balle-Balle, Balle-Balle”: Fashion – British bhangra style
This article explores the fashion and style politics that can be found in the development of British bhangra music: a post-war song and dance genre that fuses elements of Punjabi lyrics and traditional South Asian instruments with global music including pop, disco, RNB, reggae, dance, grime and Bollywood. Existing research on this genre has primarily been presented in terms of musical and lyrical analysis as well as the politics of identity forma…
Special issue on South Asian creative and cultural industries
The evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema
The history of Hindi cinema is in many ways the history of song and dance. Put another way, the evolution of Hindi cinema can perhaps most accurately be seen through its song and dance. Since the a
Designing (post)colonial knowledge: Imagining South Asia
This special issue of South Asian Popular Culture was inspired by the existing and emerging work on interdisciplinarity and design. Conversations among Amit S. Rai, Priya Jha, and Rajinder Dudrah o
Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto
Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world. Intended to spark further research and discussion, this book appeals to young people interested in languages, language learning and cultural exchange. It will be a valuable resource for academics, educato…
The Geri-Actions of the Aging Amitabh Bachchan
Geri-action as a term within film studies describes a subgenre of action cinema in which, largely though not exclusively, men in their middle ages partake in narratives of action and spectacle, whilst simultaneously dealing with issues of aging bodies that participate in a move, or not as the case might be, towards some sort of an idea of retirement. This article explores how we might make the term work for us critically and discernibly in film, …
Special issue introduction: Craft economies and inequalities
Craft as a creative industry has received increased public, academic and policy attention in recent years. However, this tends to centre on a Westernised, white, middle-class version of craft practice associated with values of authenticity, the valorisation of the handmade, and ‘hipster’ culture. At the same time, despite a rich body of work on inequalities in the cultural industries, some of which is published in this journal, little attention h…
Live and let live: The Black 007 in No Time To Die
No Time To Die (2021) saw the arrival of a Black British 007 as protagonist in the James Bond film franchise. The Black 007 Nomi was played by Black British actress Lashana Lynch with diasporic ethnic and cultural connections to Jamaica. These references are taken up in the film in the context of a late-modern postcolonial Britain. No Time To Die is an interesting case in the Bond film franchise and in scholarly studies of James Bond as it allows…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Media studies (13 works) · History (12 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)