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<title>Love and Anxiety: Gender Negotiations in Chutney-Soca Lyrics</title>
<creator>Mohammed, Aisha</creator>
<subject>chutney</subject>
<subject>soca</subject>
<subject>songs</subject>
<subject>music</subject>
<subject>gender ideology</subject>
<description>Chutney soca is commonly perceived to be a fusion of chutney, an Indo-Trinidadian folk music performed during Hindu weddings, and soca, which is Afro-Trinidadian fête music that developed through a mixture of calypso with soul. Marriage, sex and the family are recurring themes in “classical” chutney music. When chutney makes the transition to chutney-soca, the themes remain but their articulation changes both literally, in the sense that English becomes the primary language, and figuratively, as their articulation is influenced by multiple sex/gender systems. It is my contention that in chutney-soca, Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian sex/gender belief systems come into intense interaction, causing symbolic disruptions in the Indian system of gender relations. These disruptions can result in the reconfiguration of gender relations for Indian women and men at a metaphoric level. The desire of organizers of the Chutney-Soca Monarch competition to make it marketable to a foreign audience by conforming to ‘international’ standards also introduces North American gender ideologies. In this paper, I will look at how women and men, within the framework of the competition, negotiate gendered identities primarily through song lyrics, simultaneously challenging and reinforcing prevailing gender ideologies.</description>
<date>2013-06-13T18:26:27Z</date>
<date>2013-06-13T18:26:27Z</date>
<date>2013-06-13</date>
<type>Article</type>
<identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/2139/15570</identifier>
<relation>Issue 1;</relation>
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