Pocodisco
The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2260101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roshanak Kheshti (0009-0005-6290-6072, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies University of California Berkeley USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-281 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.13884 |
| OpenAlex | W4382362078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article examines the intersection between diasporic melancholia, dance, and world music. These phenomena coalesce at postcolonial discos, or public gatherings where political movement takes the form of dance, sound, and eros. I explore the network that connects various times and places to this fantastical dreamland of a sonic postcolonial future and the DJs and producers who keep those records spinning. Focusing especially on the queer and feminist nature of these spaces and sounds, I explore how these artists/activist/curators work outside of institutional contexts as public media archaeologists who excavate and re-present sounds thought long lost to diasporic communities who occupy a precarious relationship to histories of belonging. These artists contribute to radical acts of space-making that are not merely fleeting and ephemeral events but instead participate in a legacy of the postcolonial disco, or acts of place-making with the potential for radical forms of diasporic and postcolonial belonging across space and time
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Diaspora · Media studies · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Public space · Punk · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Music History and Culture
Critical Ethnography
Cultural Struggles
Butch Queens Up in Pumps
A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia
Mobilizing India
Postcolonial Melancholia
The Politics of Ethnographic Authority
Performing Queer Latinidad
Ishtyle
The Subaltern Can Dance, and So Sometimes Can the Intellectual
Appropriating Blackness
Global Divas
On the Threshold of the Political
Ephemera as Evidence
For "the Children" Dancing the Beloved Community
Souls at the Crossroads, Africans on the Water
The Anthropology of Performance
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
Pocodisco
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |