"Myth, Music and Migration in Salman Rushdie's The Ground beneath her Feet"

Salman Rushdie’s 1999 world novel "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" stands as a very important cultural text, which, despite the sharp criticism it received after its publication, by reviewers and scholars alike (often based on pointless comparisons with previous novels by Rushdie), must today be praised for the originality and freshness of the author’s invention and for offering, as we will see, a crucial key for the understanding of essential aspects of our present. Here the Anglo-Indian writer investigates such complex topics as migration, globalisation and media celebrity, through an extremely rich narrative which mixes ancient mythology and contemporary pop culture. The present essay focuses in particualar on the dialectic between music and myth and on its many migrations and translations within the the novel