The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban underground music cultures in exploring just how members of this "scene" take up space in "super-diverse" London. It provides a fresh perspective on the creativity of British South Asian youth culture, and makes a significant sociological intervention into this area by bringing the focus back onto urgent issues of "race" ethnicity alongside class and gender within youth cultural studies.
Autorentext
Helen Kim is an LSE Fellow in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Zusammenfassung
Presenting the proceedings of a conference held at Syracuse University in honor of S.S. Stevens, a pioneer in the scaling of sensory magnitudes and the originator of the method of magnitude estimation, this volume brings together the work of 20 authorities on the procedures of ratio scaling. These experts--psychophysicists, physiologists, and theoreticians--offer their views on whether or not psychological magnitudes can be measured and whether the judgments of psychological magnitudes constitute the basis for the construction of a ratio scale. Also discussed is the question of whether any single method could stand out as a potential standard technique for measuring psychological magnitudes.
Inhalt
1. Introduction 2. Don't Talk, Just Dance: Fieldwork in the Club and Elsewhere 3. How "Desi" Is "Desi"?: The Making of London's Desi Diasporic Identities 4. "Brown Boys Doing It Like This"? The Neo-Liberal Politics of the Asian Scene 5. Bombay Bronx: Space, Capital and Cultural Production and the Asian Urban Scene 6. "No Caps, No All Male Groups!": The Regulation of Asians in London Clubs. Conclusion: The Threat of the "Other."