[Reader-list] is bhangra pop taking over?

[zehra rizvi]

see also this months vybe magazine (probably online in some 
version..)...whole article on bhangra/hip hop/desi style music...its an 
american magazine but they make some references to the music scene in the 
UK.

has anyone on the list read that piece in vybe?  if so, any comments?

zehra.

ps.  i dont think MC Panjabi will be the salman rushdie of pop.  i think in 
terms of music, theres still some (not much though!) time left for that to 
happen.  and i think its going to be a rapper, not mc panjabi.

:)


>From: Greg Wise <Greg.Wise at asu.edu>
>To: "'staun'" <list at subroutine.de>
>CC: reader-list at sarai.net
>Subject: RE: [Reader-list] is bhangra pop taking over?
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:42:30 -0700
>
>There are a number of sources out there on the bhangra scene in the UK. A
>key text in this regard is Sanjay Sharma, John Hutnyk, and Ashwani Sharma
>(eds) (1996) Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance
>Music. Zed Books.
>
>See also Les Back's chapter on Apache Indian in his "New Ethnicities and
>Urban Culture" (1996, University of College London Press), George Lipsitz's
>chapter on Apache Indian in "Dangerous Crossroads" (1994, Verso), and Andy
>Bennett's chapter on Bhangra and Asian Identity in "Popular Music and Youth
>Culture: Music, Identity, Place" (2000, Macmillan).
>
>Some of the connections between the bhangra and hip hop scenes in the UK 
>are
>made in David Hesmondhalgh & Caspar Melville's chapter "Urban Breakbeat
>Culture" in Tony Mitchell's Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA
>(2001, Wesleyan University Press).
>
>On the bhangra scene in New York, see Sunaina Marr Maira's "Desis in the
>House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City" (2002, Temple
>University Press).
>
>I don't have anything about its perception in India, just anecdotal 
>evidence
>about (for example) the reception of Apache Indian. I would be interested 
>if
>anyone had studies on this.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Greg
>
>J. Macgregor Wise
>Associate Professor
>Communication Studies
>Arizona State University West
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: staun [mailto:list at subroutine.de]
> > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 5:35 AM
> > To: reader-list at sarai.net
> > Subject: [Reader-list] is bhangra pop taking over?
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear list,
> > it's hard to tell if it's the breakthrough of a genre or just another
> > one-hit-wonder: Panjabi MC's bhangra-pop song "Mundian to
> > bach ke" that stormed the german charts end of last year and
> > will now be re-released in Britain. Anyway, the attempt to
> > cross the border between two musical parallel universes
> > within the U.K., between the world of High Street megastores
> > and Indipop cornershops is remarkable.
> >
> > I cannot deny that, as a cultural critic without any greater
> > insight nor
> >
> > preference for that kind of music, I am as much interested in
> > the question where that sound comes from as in the question
> > when it will go away again. Any hints to interesting material
> > about the U.K. bhangra scene, its perception in India, its
> > significance as culture or economy would be very welcome.
> >
> > "The empire strikes back" was Pico Iyer's thesis on the
> > gaining relevance of post-colonial or second generation
> > immigrants on british literature. Will Panjabi MC be the
> > Salman Rushdie of pop?
> >
> > Best,
> > Harald Staun
> >
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