Friday, Mar. 26, 2004 12:00 noon, Ballantine 004 Listen to this archived broadcast. Marvin Sterling (Department of Anthropology, IU) "Semiotics and New Musical Diaspora: Dancehalls in Jamaica and Japan"

Marvin D. Sterling is Visiting Assistant Professor in IU Bloomington’s Department of Anthropology. His research interests include Asian and Caribbean Studies, African diasporic music, race, popular culture, performance theory and transnationalism. His forthcoming book is entitled “Race as a ‘Glocal’ System: Performative Identifications with Jamaican Culture in Japan” (Duke University Press). His next project explores the contemporary Japanese imagination of New York, ethnographically centered on youth engagement with black subculture in the city.