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Representing South Asian alterity? East London's Asian electronic music scene and the articulation of globally mediated identities

Bowdoin College, dmurthy{at}Bowdoin.edu

In the years since the London tube bombings, popular depictions of British Asians have been increasingly `othered' at best, and stereotyped as dangerous terrorists at worst. Asian self-representation continues to be a critically-needed intervention. East London's Asian electronic music scene serves as a means to represent the voices of young urban British Asians, attempting to bring them from peripheral alterity and render them visible in mainstream British popular culture. The music, which blends synthesized electronic music with South Asian musical stylings, has brought musicians from both the South Asian diaspora and the subcontinent to perform in `Banglatown', East London. These regular globalized performances of the scene, an aspect rarely investigated, have challenged locally bounded British Asian identities.

Key Words: British Asians • diaspora • East London • ethnicity and culture • identity and music • South Asian popular culture

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, 329-348 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1367549409105367


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