1: Introduction; 2: Negotiating difference: ethnicity and identity in contemporary Britain; 3: Music, culture and identity; 4: Asian influences on pop and rock in the UK; 5: Marketing the exotic: Asian bands and the novelty effect; 6: Politics or pleasure? Asianness and the burden of representation; 7: Old and new identities: music, ethnicity and syncretism; Conclusion Then and now: Asian bands in the 21st century
Dr Rehan Hyder is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Received the only Special Mention in the 2005 IASPM Book Award 'Read this book as a smartly conceived and adroitly completed rescue mission. Of all Britain's musical artists, Asian bands are the most ensnared and assaulted by journalistic, academic and political cliches. Rehan Hyder cuts his way through all this verbiage to get to the musicians themselves. In Brimful of Asia music is used to make sense of complicated lives and lives are examined to make sense of complicated music. An essential book for cultural and popular music studies alike.' Simon Frith, University of Stirling 'Brimful of Asia is filled to the brim with insight, analysis, and interpretation of some of the most important music being made in the world today. With deft mastery over a broad range of ideas and issues, Rehan Hyder locates the emergence of artists of Asian ancestry on the popular music charts in Britain as part of the global shake-up that is dramatically altering relationships between culture and place in many different ways all around the world. Brimful of Asia has much to say about artists, audiences, and artistry in a tumultuous time of transformation and change.' George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego; author of Dangerous Crossroads 'I found this an absolutely fascinating book, well-written and well-referenced to writers in the field - not simply the UK. The first section alone (chapters 1-4) provides some essential thinking about identity politics that would be useful to anyone studying ethnicities. Clearly its focus is on the UK and this may suggest that its appeal is limited. However, I would suggest that the issues confronted and discussed are relevant to a much wider-audience as they provide a thoughtful interrogation of the problems confronting young Asian bands that can be usefully applied to comparable research projects. In this case, it is not so much the substance (which is UK-based) but the approach and issues arising that will be useful to scholars and researchers.' Excerpt taken from the jury's report for the 2005 IASPM Book Award , in which the only Special Mention went to Rehan Hyder's 'Brimful of Asia'. '... this excellent book should become one of the standard texts on British popular musicianship at the end of the twentieth century.' Popular Music 'This [...] full-length study will undoubtedly be welcomed by Western academia...' Journal of Creative Communications
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