Bhangra Moves - From Ludhiana to London and Beyond

Bhangra is now understood to refer to the hybrid music produced in Britain by mixing Panjabi folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms by British Asian music producers, which is derived from a Punjabi harvest dance of the same name. This book looks at Bhangra's global flows from one of its originary sites, the Indian subcontinent, to contribute to the understanding of emerging South Asian cultural practices such as Bhangra or Bollywood in multi-ethnic societies. It seeks to trace Bhangra's moves from Punjab and its 'return back' to look at the forces that initiate and regulate global flows of local texts and to ask how their producers and consumers redirect them to produce new definitions of culture, identity and nation.

List of contents

Contents: Flows across the Chenab; No mixing please! We are Indian; Mann Panjab De: fabricating authority; Naqqal, mimicry and the signifying monkey; Global bazaar, local peddlers; Desi networks; Cool guys, desi boyz and Panjabi munde dance the bhangra; Performing the Panjabi body; Bhangra nation; Who speaks for the jat?: vernacular cosmopolitanisms; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Product details

• Authors: Anjali Gera Roy, Anjaligera Roy, Roy Anjali Gera
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138255579
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25557-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Music, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Pop Music, Popular Music