Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138255579)

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.

Author: Anjaligera Roy
ISBN-10: 1138255572
ISBN-13: 9781138255579
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2016
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.76h x 6.06w x 0.63d