/LC.GIF&client=easterncarolinaedu)
Brimful of Asia : negotiating ethnicity on the UK music scene / Rehan Hyder.
| Author/creator | Hyder, Rehan, 1968- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004. |
| Description | 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | [Ashgate popular and folk music series] Ashgate popular and folk music series. ^A512613 |
| Contents | 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 and new identities: music, ethnicity and syncretism -- Conclusion: then and now: Asian bands in the 21st century -- Appendix 1: Interviews ; Appendix 2: Liner notes. |
| Abstract | 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? This book 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-192), discography (pages 183-185), and index. |
| LCCN | 2003065056 |
| ISBN | 0754606775 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754640647 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML3492 .H93 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |