%0 Journal Article
%T Indian Folk Music and ¡®Tropical Body Language¡¯: The Case of Mauritian Chutney
%A Catherine Servan-Schreiber
%J South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
%D 2011
%I Centre d¡¯Etudes de l¡¯Inde et de l¡¯Asie du Sud
%X In Mauritius, the meeting between Indian worlds and Creole worlds, through the migration of the indentured labour which followed the abolition of slavery in 1834, gave birth to a style of music called ¡®chutney¡¯. As a result of the African influence on an Indian folk genre, chutney music embodies the transformation of a music for listening into a music for dancing. In this article, the innovations brought into the choreographical dimension of the chutney groups will be taken as a key to understanding the adaptation of Indian rural migrants to a new ¡®Indian-oceanic¡¯ way of life through the experience of diaspora.
%K Mauritius
%K chutney music
%K body language
%K Indian folk music
%K Indian diaspora
%K choreography.
%U http://samaj.revues.org/3111