Bakrania Falu Bakrania

Bhangra and Asian Underground (eBook, PDF)

South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Asian Underground music-a fusion of South Asian genres with western breakbeats created for the dance club scene by DJs and musicians of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent-went mainstream in the U.K. in the late 1990s. Its success was unprecedented: British bhangra, a blend of Punjabi folk music with hip-hop musical elements, was enormously popular among South Asian communities but had yet to become mainstream. For many, the widespread attention to Asian Underground music signaled the emergence of a supposedly new, tolerant, and multicultural Britain that could finally accept South Asians. Interweaving ethnography and theory, Falu Bakrania examines the social life of British Asian musical culture to reveal a more complex and contradictory story of South Asian belonging in Britain. Analyzing the production of bhangra and Asian Underground music by male artists and its consumption by female club-goers, Bakrania shows that gender, sexuality, and class intersected in ways that profoundly shaped how young people interpreted "e;British"e; and "e;Asian"e; identity and negotiated, sometimes violently, contests about ethnic authenticity, sexual morality, individual expression, and political empowerment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395645
• Artikelnr.: 54788004

Autorenporträt

Falu Bakrania is Associate Professor of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. The Politics of Production
1. Mainstreaming Masculinity: Bhangra Boyz and Belonging in Britain 33
2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Asian Underground Artists and the
Politics of Not Being Political 70
Part II. The Club Cultures in Consumption
3. The Troubling Subjects of Wayward Asian Girls: Working-Class Women and
Bhangra Club Going 117
4. Roomful of Asha: Middle-Class Women and Asian Underground Club Going 160
Conclusion. Bhangra and Asian Underground in the 2000s 187
Notes 203
Bibliography 227
Index 237