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Dhanveer Singh Brar is a writer, scholar, and teacher focussing on questions of race and culture, aesthetics and politics from the mid-twentieth century to the present. His work explores the music and the art of Black and Asian people in Britain, the U.S., and the Caribbean. Dhanveer has published two books, Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) (The 87 Press, 2020), and Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century (Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press, 2021). Dhanveer is also a member of two research and performance projects, “Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective” (with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, Fumi Okiji, Louis Moreno, Paul Rekret and Ronald Rose-Antoinette) and “Lovers Discourse” (with artist, DJ, broadcaster and composer, Edward George). He is currently Lecturer in Black British History at the University of Leeds.