1st Edition

Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

By Jerri Daboo Copyright 2018
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage. From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent, Jerri Daboo reconsiders the centrality of Bollywood and bhangra to theatre made for or about British... Read more

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Bollywood, Bhangra, and Being British

Chapter Two: Mapping Migration: transnational formations of diaspora

Chapter Three: Bollywood and/as Musical Theatre

Chapter Four: Bollywood on Stage: transadaptation and ‘Bollywoodisation’

Chapter Five: Bending Bhangra: Rifco Arts and Bend It Like Beckham: the musical

Conclusion

Bibliography

Filmography

Biography

Jerri Daboo is Associate Professor of Performance in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter. Her research explores performance and culture, particularly in the British South Asian communities.