Date of Graduation
5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Music
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Music
Advisor/Mentor
Christa A. Bentley
Committee Member
Sophie Brady
Second Committee Member
Janine A. Sytsma
Third Committee Member
Mary B. Long
Abstract
Sid Sriram, Arooj Aftab, and Ganavya Doraiswamy are three Asian American musicians who have experienced a meteoric rise over the past five years. These artists are signed to major labels, receive mainstream media exposure, have multiple Grammy nominations, and tour internationally. Through different avenues, they have built up diverse audiences that include members of the South Asian diaspora who see their own stories and music represented. Rather than being a single part of a cross-cultural collaboration, these musicians belong to both worlds. With backgrounds both in South Asian and American musical styles and grammars, these musicians are like their work: a new phenomenon of fusion that is evidence of, and only possible with, an increasingly multicultural, globalising world.
Keywords
music; musicology; music history; history; asian american studies; diasporic studies
Citation
Kathiravan, K. P. (2025). Poets, Pioneers, and In-Betweeners: Musicians of the South Asian Diaspora. Music Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/muscuht/10
Included in
Asian American Studies Commons, History Commons, Musicology Commons
