Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene

By Rehan Hyder

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754640647
• ISBN13: 9780754640646
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages