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Bhangra Moves - From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (Paperback)
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Bhangra Moves - From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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Bhangra is commonly understood as the hybrid music produced in
Britain by British Asian music producers through mixing Panjabi
folk melodies with western pop and black dance rhythms. This 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. The critical
importance of this book lies in understanding the difference
between the present globalizing wave and previous trans-local
movements. Gera Roy contrasts the frames of cultural imperialism
with those of cultural invasion to show how Indian cultures have
constantly reinvented themselves by cross-pollinating with
'invading' cultures such as Hellenic, Persian, Arabic and many
others in the past. By looking at Bhangra's flows to and from
India, the book revises the relation between culture, space and
identity and challenges boundaries. It weighs both the uses and
costs of visibility provided by global networks to marginalized
groups in diverse localities and explores whether collaborations
between Bhangra practitioners, largely of working class origin,
give ordinary people any control over the circulation of culture in
the global village. Finally, the book considers whether cultural
practices can alter hierarchies and power structures in the real
world.
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