> To get a better understanding for Bhangra and the culture of it's origins in Birmingham I decided to buy the Book 'Bhangra - Birmingham and Beyond' to help furhyther add detail to my research and possibly increase design ideas with stronger reasoning. Below are key notes that I have taken down from the book.
- DJ's and sounds systems networks operated amongst a community thrown up in a whirlwind during Thatcher's reign in the 1980's
- Bhangra, in it's traditional sense, created a soundscape of celebration of the harvest but in post-war Britain it had metamorphosized.
- 'Birmingham was instrumental in this shift and is the starting point of this book.
- 'Chak De Phattey!' - Lift the floorboards/Mash-up the Dancefloor)
- Bhangra dates from the late 1960's and follows the post-war arrival of migrant workers from the Indian subcontinent and East Africa.
- Many settles in the West Midlands, importing records alongside early indian music.
- Bhangra music consists of mostly males
- The lyrics are heroic in tone, often in praise of the motherland.
- A distinctively british Bhangra took shape in the mid-1980's as an emerging second generation of South Asians musicians began to experiment and imporvies with technology, marking a direct engagement with notions of British and Asian experience.
- 'Soho Road Uteh' (On Soho Road) is a song by band Apna Sangeet, describes a story of love to which two lovers meet in India, become separated and then attempt to find each other through a love quest-cum song journey.
- Soho Road in Handsworth has global resonance for young Asians well beyond Birmingham tracks, and is often deployed in British Bhangra tracks.
- since the emergence in the 1960's Bhangra music in Britain has consisted of and brought together hundreds of people.
- 1991 track 'Rule Britannia'
> The book offers a timely and accessible overview of some of the artsits, events, songs, audeinces, and imaged of British Bhangra music.
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