1st Edition
Brimful of Asia Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene
By Rehan Hyder
Copyright 2004
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the 1990s, Asian pop artists began entering the mainstream of the British music industry for the first time. Bands such as Black Star Liner, Cornershop, Fun Da Mental and Voodoo Queens, led those within and without the industry to start asking questions such as what did it mean to be Asian? How did the bands' Asian background affect their music? What did their music say about Asians in... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Negotiating difference: ethnicity and identity in contemporary Britain; 3: Music, culture and identity; 4: Asian influences on pop and rock in the UK; 5: Marketing the exotic: Asian bands and the novelty effect; 6: Politics or pleasure? Asianness and the burden of representation; 7: Old and new identities: music, ethnicity and syncretism; Conclusion Then and now: Asian bands in the 21st century
Biography
Rehan Hyder
