Brimful of Asia - Rehan Hyder

Brimful of Asia

Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene

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Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-4064-6 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Introduction; Negotiating difference: ethnicity and identity in contemporary Britain; Music, culture and identity; Asian influences on pop and rock in the UK; Marketing the exotic: Asian bands and the novelty effect; Politics or pleasure? Asianness and the burden of representation; Old & new identities: music, ethnicity, syncretism.
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 Britain? In this book, Rehan Hyder draws on in-depth interviews with musicians from these bands and with critics and record producers, to examine the pressures associated with making music as a young Asian in today's multi-ethnic Britain. As the book reveals, these musicians wish to convey an authentic sense of creativity in their music, while at the same time wanting to assert a positive ethnic identity. Hyder explores these two impulses against the backdrop of a music industry and a society at large that hold a range of confining stereotypes about what it means to be Asian. The experiences of these bands add considerably to the wider debate about the nature of identity in the contemporary world.

Dr Rehan Hyder is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.8.2004
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
ISBN-10 0-7546-4064-7 / 0754640647
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-4064-6 / 9780754640646
Zustand Neuware
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