Kim, H orcid.org/0000-0003-1650-8418 (2017) ‘We’re just like everyone else!’ Rethinking the cultural politics of the London Asian urban music scene. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20 (2). pp. 125-140. ISSN 1367-5494
Abstract
This article engages with the practices of politics and its presence and meanings within the Asian scene. Despite work that has taken youth cultures beyond the framework of ‘resistance’, youth cultures are often still imagined and understood through the lens of ‘resistance’. Yet, within the Asian scene, the tensions, disavowal and ambivalence toward politics point toward a more complex, multilayered understanding of contemporary youth cultural forms. This article takes into account the politics of location and belonging that Asians within this scene are negotiating that are shaping the kind of political outlooks and attitudes that are being voiced. The growth of a middle-class ‘desi’ community in the United Kingdom and the rise of neoliberalism have led to a significant decline in the practice of a radical, deliberative politics within this ‘desi’ scene.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016.Kim, H (2017) ‘We’re just like everyone else!’ Rethinking the cultural politics of the London Asian urban music scene. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20 (2). pp. 125-140. ISSN 1367-5494. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Keywords: | Cultural politics; diaspora; ethnicity; neoliberalism; youth cultures |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2019 11:25 |
Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2019 07:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1367549416638521 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143475 |