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.
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