Bhangra and Asian Underground : South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakrania, Falu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nightclubs--Great Britain.

South Asians--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.

South Asians--Great Britain--Music.

South Asians--Music--Social aspects--Great Britain.

South Asians--Ethnic identity--Great Britain.

South Asians.

South Asians--Music--Great Britain.

Nightclubs.

Local Subjects:

Nightclubs--Great Britain.

South Asians--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.

South Asians--Great Britain--Music.

South Asians--Music--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through their production and consumption of bhangra and Asian Underground music in the late 1990s, British Asian youth constructed masculinities and femininities with profoundly uneven implications for ethnic, racial, and national belonging.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Politics of Production; Chapter One. Mainstreaming Masculinity: Bhangra Boyz and Belonging in Britain; Chapter Two. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Asian Underground Artists and the Politics of Not Being Political; Part II: The Club Cultures of Consumption; Chapter Three. The Troubling Subject of Wayward Asian Girls: Working-Class Women and Bhangra Club Going; Chapter Four. Roomful of Asha: Middle-Class Women and Asian Underground Club Going; Conclusion. Bhangra and Asian Underground in the 2000s; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780822395645

0822395649

OCLC:

1200081551