{"id":22521,"date":"2020-09-07T21:53:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/sep\/07\/we-will-bring-change-the-indian-band-shaking-a-cruel-caste-system"},"modified":"2020-09-07T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:53:27","slug":"we-will-bring-change-the-indian-band-shaking-a-cruel-caste-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22521","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We will bring change&#8217;: the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy <em>gaana<\/em> style to confront class conflict \u2013 and call out everything from corruption to violence against women<\/p>\n<p>When Isaivani starts singing the \u201cbeef song\u201d with happy abandon it is nearly 10pm. The audience in the southern Indian city of Madurai seem to have lost track of time and erupt into cheers. Many wave blue flags, dance and whistle in high pitch to the fast tempo of percussion instruments. It is a warm night in October 2019, and very different to the India of today amid coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>This is a performance by the Casteless Collective, who are using music to shake up India\u2019s notorious caste system of stratified social class. The band wear brightly coloured suits on stage, unusual attire for an Indian group. Isaivani, their sole female member, twirls as she sings high intensity, fast-paced <em>gaana<\/em> songs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/sep\/07\/we-will-bring-change-the-indian-band-shaking-a-cruel-caste-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy gaana style to confront class conflict \u2013 and call out everything from corruption to violence against womenWhen Isaivani starts singing the \u201cbeef song\u201d with happy abandon it is nearly 10pm. The audience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,71,1128,62,1203,425,1032,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-issues","category-culture","category-dalits","category-india","category-inequality","category-music","category-pop-and-rock","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22521\/revisions\/22522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}