{"product_id":"bhangra-and-asian-underground-9780822353010","title":"Bhangra and Asian Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a major exposition of the British Asian music scene, \u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a strident tour-de-force of the South Asian music scene during a critical phase of its development.” - Malaikah Fazal, \u003ci\u003eEastern Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book. By focusing on how young British Asian women, particularly working-class women, negotiate questions of race, class, and nation through a gendered relation to popular culture, Falu Bakrania foregrounds the constitutive nature of class in British Asian women's lives.\"—\u003cb\u003eGayatri Gopinath\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eImpossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Falu Bakrania has written a fantastic book that provides an excellent account of the complex and contradictory ways that young men and women in Britain craft British Asian identities through the bhangra and Asian Underground music scenes. It was with pleasure that I 'met' Jess, Sukh, Leena, and the other girls and women. Bakrania's transcriptions of the interviews with men and women were fantastic and well-analyzed, truly conveying a sense of their struggles, joys, and humor. \u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground \u003c\/i\u003eis a fabulous ethnography that will enjoy a wide readership.\"—\u003cb\u003eNitasha Tamar Sharma\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome addition to the ethnographic literature dealing with music practices in Britain, and her sophisticated analysis considerably expands our knowledge of these musical forms and their attendant social and cultural conventions.\"  -- Evangelos Chrysagis * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e“...[O]ne of the only good books ever written about the influential Bhangra subculture. Bakrania opens the book recalling her cousins playing Bally Sagoo’s ‘Star Megamix,’ following all the strands that made up that moment in history until she has assembled a rich portrait of a unique movement in British culture.” -- Josephine Livingstone * Dazed and Confused *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich ethnography of British Asian youth that will be of particular interest to scholars of popular culture and immigrant and diaspora formations.\" -- Stefan Fiol * Ethnomusicology *\u003cbr\u003e“Few book-length monographs have been devoted to these music genres, especially Asian underground, and \u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to the literature. The book should be of value to ethnomusicologists, scholars of popular music and of Asian Studies, since it addresses bhangra and Asian underground both as music forms and as musical subcultures in the British Asian community.” -- Iris Yellum * Journal of World Popular Music *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a window into the South Asian diaspora in London, as well as an opportunity to discover some terrific music. . . . [It] will appeal to a wide academic audience from fields including ethnomusicology, anthropology, women’s studies, and diaspora studies, as well as to any scholars interested in the complexities of identity and belonging.” -- Anna Oldfield * Popular Music and Society *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBhangra and Asian Underground\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that makes significant contributions to the study of youth culture, popular music, and social identity. The author’s ethnographic research gives the reader an up close look at how young British Asians negotiate their identities by engaging with the contradictory demands of race, class, and gender.” -- Ryan Moore * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Politics of Production \u003cbr\u003e 1. Mainstreaming Masculinity: Bhangra Boyz and Belonging in Britain 33\u003cbr\u003e 2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Asian Underground Artists and the Politics of Not Being Political 70\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Club Cultures in Consumption \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Troubling Subjects of Wayward Asian Girls: Working-Class Women and Bhangra Club Going 117\u003cbr\u003e 4. Roomful of Asha: Middle-Class Women and Asian Underground Club Going 160\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Bhangra and Asian Underground in the 2000s 187\u003cbr\u003e Notes 203\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 227\u003cbr\u003e Index 237","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359231312215,"sku":"9780822353010","price":104.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353010.jpg?v=1754124055","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bhangra-and-asian-underground-9780822353010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}