Bakrania Bhangra and Asian Underground

South Asian Music and the Politics of Belonging in Britain
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9564-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bakrania, Falu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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