Gender, new creativity and Carnatic music in London by Jasmine Hornabrook

“…This article examines creative projects amongst second-generation, Tamil diasporic female musicians (focused on British Sri Lankan examples) located within London’s Carnatic music scene. Several scholars have suggested that the twentieth-century Indian nationalist project constructed ideals of femininity that positioned women to uphold the inner core of Indian culture as bearers of tradition during colonial rule (Bakrania 2013; Chatterjee 1989), and which were also reflected in the restricted performance and creativity of Carnatic music for female musicians (Subramanian 2006; Weidman 2003). …”
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Getting louder: music, “feedback loops” and social change in the Tamil transnational music scene by Jasmine Hornabrook

“…Having been built on practices of carnatic, devotional, folk, Kollywood music, hip-hop and R&B, these feedback loops are entangled in politics of belonging. …”
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