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Asian Bands
Asian British music industry analysis
Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Musicians
Author_Rehan Hyder
bands
Beggars Banquet
Black Star Liner
British popular music studies
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Contextual Importance
cultural hybridity
Dave Watts
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ethnic identity formation
Exotic Politics
Gary Walker
Independent Labels
Kula Shaker
Luaka Bop
Major Labels
Major Record Label
Melody Maker
Mercury Music Prize
minority representation media
Multi-ethnic Britain
Multiethnic Britain
National Music Press
National Music Scene
qualitative interviews musicians
syncretism in music
TransGlobal Underground
UK Band
UK Music
UK Music Industry
Product details
- ISBN 9781138459656
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
