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Popular Music, Itinerancy and Identity in Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal ‘Nationalité: immigré(e) ’

Bibliographic Data

ID12244663
AuthorsSamira Farhoud (St. Thomas University), Carey A Watt (St. Thomas University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume21
Issue1
Pages31-46
Publication date2010-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957155809352065
OpenAlexW2103407843
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal ‘Nationalité: immigré(e)’ contains many stimulating invocations of popular music, and these highlight familiar Beur themes of marginalisation, movement, liminality and identity in a highly interesting way. Engaging seriously with Sakinna’s musical interests and her commentaries about the rock and proto-punk music of Lou Reed, the punk rock of the Sex Pistols, the reggae music of Max Romeo, Rastafarian culture, and the Arab music of Umm Kulthum is crucial for understanding the importance of movement and itinerancy in her struggle to construct a viable postcolonial identity. Sakinna’s treatment of music also takes us out of the usual Beur geographical frame (France / Mediterranean / North Africa) to the worlds of the Atlantic and the Caribbean, and it reminds us of the richness of Beur writing and the multimedia modalities of Beur culture more generally

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Identity (music · Liminality · Literature · Music history · Musical · Popular music · Punk · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Music History and Culture

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