Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene

ISBN-13: 9781138459656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Rehan Hyder

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Rehan Hyder