Brimful of Asia : negotiating ethnicity on the UK music scene
"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."--Jacket
viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780754606772, 9780754640646, 0754606775, 0754640647
53083868
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? Asianess and the burden of representation; Old and new identities: music, ethnicity and syncretism; Conclusion: Then and now: Asian bands in the 21st century; Appendix One: Interviews; Appendix Two: Liner notes; Discography; Bibliography; Index.