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Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page I 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page i WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT PANTOMIME TERROR This book starts with the countless provocations that surround us in the ambient war on terror. However, rather than retreating into either loathsome self-pity or indignant self-righteousness, Hutnyk responds with the thumping provocation to think and get real! Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne For two decades, Hutnyk’s research on diasporic music and politics has been at the political and scholarly cutting edge. Moving from ADF and Fun-Da-Mental, to MIA and Wagner, his work is always contextualised with relevance and an unstinting anti-racist, anti-imperialist commitment. Here in the not-so-great British tradition of pantomime parody with its Molotov cocktail caricatures of hero(in)es, villains and sidekicks, Hutnyk urges us to look at how horror is accompanied by the ludic, and how the culture industry is reined into the post 9/11 war on terror: ‘the pantomime of politics, the theatre of power, the double-plays of deception’. War peculates through every cell and membrane in our numbed bodies, only to be resigned to the waste basket of disposable culture. With its cogent attack on what have become cultural icons, Pantomime Terror updates Adorno for this terror- saturated age – masterful in its sweep, engaging in its style and thought-provoking in its analysis. Raminder Kaur, University of Sussex 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page ii 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page iii Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page iv 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page v Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics John Hutnyk Winchester, UK Washington, USA 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page vi First published by Zero Books, 2014 Zero Books is an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd., Laurel House, Station Approach, Alresford, Hants, SO24 9JH, UK [email protected] www.johnhuntpublishing.com www.zero-books.net For distributor details and how to order please visit the ‘Ordering’ section on our website. Text copyright: John Hutnyk 2013 ISBN: 978 1 78279 209 3 All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publishers. The rights of John Hutnyk as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design: Lee Nash Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY We operate a distinctive and ethical publishing philosophy in all areas of our business, from our global network of authors to production and worldwide distribution. 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgements x 1. Introduction: 1 London Bus :: Pantomime :: War Diary :: Mediation :: The Orange Jumpsuit :: Alerts. 2. DIY Cookbook 25 Visiting the Kumars :: A Suicide Rapper :: 1001 Nights :: Cookbook DIY :: Pantomime Video :: The RampArts Interlude (notes from a screening) :: All is War :: Back to the Kumars. 3. Dub at the Movies 66 Representing La Haine :: Žižek-degree-zero :: Derrida Writes the Way :: The Eiffel Tower :: Ruffians, Rabble, Rogues and Repetition :: Musical Interlude :: Riff-raff :: Reserve Army :: Coda: The Battle of Algiers :: Molotov. 4. Scheherazade‘s Sister, M.I.A. 124 Cultural Projects :: Storyteller Nights :: M.I.A. :: Born Free :: Sell Out, or Tiocfaidh ár lá :: Witticisms and Wagner :: Despot Culture :: Scheherazade in Guantánamo. References 190 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page viii 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page ix Dedicated to lost comrades: Imogen Bunting, Rosie Wright, Paul Hendrich. ix 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page x Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics Acknowledgements This book tunes into music in three acts. I have written on these performers before, and so thank them again for the opportunity to return to their stories. The approach is a continuation of a research project and collective political effort that I joined when I first came to Britain in 1994. This iteration rehearses this work for London and in relation to twenty first-century terrors, as well as returning to a long beloved articulation of divergent interpreta- tions of critical theory, especially the work of Theodor Adorno. In the introduction, there is a first rendition of the theme of pantomime, which will resonate throughout, and perhaps perversely, the end of the intro starts in on the end of the video Cookbook DIY, examined more fully in the next chapter. I advance this end because the point of this book is to record how peripheral ‘messages’ are too often ignored. In this sense, the project of ‘pantomime terror’ as distraction will be affirmed. I thank Aki Nawaz and Dave Watts for what is now a long collaboration. The first chapter proper was presented as my inaugural professorial lecture at Goldsmiths College in 2007, introduced by Geoff Crossick, but also heard in presentations at Jadavpur University (thanks Abhijit Roy and Moinak Biswas), Concordia (Joel McKim), the small triple-a at High Falls (Michael Taussig), the University of Auckland (Cris Shore, Nabeel Zuberi) and the Freie Universität (Erika Fischer-Lichte, Frederik Tygstrup, Helen Carr, Janis Jeffries). The next chapter requires acknowledgement of John Pandit of Asian Dub Foundation and the formative influence of Ash and Sanjay Sharma, themselves linked to a group of (still) young scholars that included Virinder Kalra, Raminder Kaur, Tej Purewal, Meeta Jha and Bobby Sayyid. The traces of a Marxist origin in that group are also acknowledged in the subject matter of the chapter – not that we were urban lumpenproletarians by any means, but we were interlopers in x 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page xi Acknowledgements relatively privileged spaces and inclined towards a solidarity that was not accommodated by the established theorists we critiqued. The final chapter has much to say about M.I.A. and Wagner. I leave it to readers to decide if this rendering of pantomime develops the narrative further. I feel it does the work needed to clarify the words on Adorno and Auschwitz offered at the end. A critique of art in the service of politics while under culture industry sway should never go out of style. I have presented this material in Oslo and Copenhagen (thanks Annemette Kirkegaard), Braga (Isabel Ermida), Lisbon (Sónia Pereira, Isabel Gil) and Gothenberg (Aleksander Motturi. Sara Westin, Nathalie Bödtker-Lund). I have learnt from those mentioned above, but also just as much from those who read this work in draft. Thanks to Sophie Fuggle for looking at everything with love and care. To all those at Goldsmiths who heard this over and over in earlier forms, including the obsessive repetitions about buses, storytelling and Frankfurt School theory. To Lara Choksey, Rachel Rye, Anna Geschwill, Anjana Raghavan, and Joanna Figiel for eradicating stray asides. To Simon Barber for insights into sound and zen, and for tributes to bibles and brandy. Camille Barbagallo, always and forever for being there (but on the wrong side of the river). Also Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Tom Bunyard, Carrie Clanton, Hassan Khaled, Alison Hulme, Vivek Bald, Rana Brientjes, Ewa Jasiewicz, Klaus Peter Koepping, Jeff Kinkle, Mary Claire Halvorson, Howard Potter, Biju Mathew, Vijay Prashad, Raul Gschrey, Tariq Mehmood, Theresa Mikuriya, Atticus Che Narain, Michael Dutton, Enis Oktay, Maria-José Pantoja-Peschard, Olivia Swift, Daisy Tam, Karen Tam, Anamik Saha, Tarek Salhany, Polly Phipps-Holland, A. Sivanandan, Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, Rico Reyes, Seth Ayyaz, Simon McVeigh, Tom Henri, Tara Blake Wilson, Louise Fabian, Ben Rosensweig, Liz Thompson, Angela Mitropoulos, Rebecca Graversen, Adela Santana: thank-you all. Any glitches that remain are mine, though I am happy to blame xi 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page xii Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics the two little rebels, Theodor Anthony Apollo Hutnyk and Emile Mouat Blake Hutnyk, for the delay in getting this text to press. Parts of the introduction appeared in Stephanie Menrath and Alexander Schwinghammer (eds) What Does a Chameleon Look Like? Topographies of Immersion, Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2011); parts of the chapter ‘DIY Cookbook‘ appeared in the Journal of Creative Communications, 2(1-2):123-141 (2007) and in Ian Peddie (ed) Popular Music and Human Rights, Farnham: Ashgate (2011); parts of ‘Dub at the Movies‘, in a very early version was presented as an talk to Howard Potter‘s project group at the Working Lives Institute, Metropolitan University Dec 12 2005, and parts appeared in much different form in Henrietta Moore and David Held (eds) Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation, London: Oneworld Publications (2008); parts of ‘Scheherazade‘s Sister: M.I.A.’ appeared in Social Identities, 18(5): 555-572 (2012), under the editorship of Pal Ahluwalia. Substantially rewritten, nevertheless thanks for allowing the reversionings. John Hutnyk Goldsmiths University of London [email protected] xii 978 1 78279 209 3 Pantomime Terror:Layout 1 10/28/2013 3:00 PM Page 1 1 Introduction The war on terror thrives on pantomime demons.
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