Music in the margins? Popular music heritage and British Bhangra music

Narratives of popular music heritage and cultural identity: The affordances and constraints of popular music memories

“…Patterns of migration bring new sounds to urban settings and may alter or diversify the musical cultures of a given locality. In relation to this, Khabra (2014) notes how the sense of Britishness constructed at the British Music Experience at the O2 Arena in London fails to engage with the contributions of the Indian community to this popular music heritage: Notably, this exhibit marginalises Bhangra music, constructing a narrative that includes significant mentions of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Glam Rock, Punk, Reggae, the 90s Manchester music scene and Britpop. It becomes clear from progressing through the exhibit that this is a narrative of British popular music that British Bhangra is not a part of.…”

Places of popular music heritage: The local framing of a global cultural form in Dutch museums and archives

“…However, the narrow orientation on specific places can also pose limits to understanding of popular music history. It might neglect the musical connections between different places or the contributions of migrants to local or national cultures (Khabra, 2014). This study posits that popular music heritage implicates a reciprocal relation between the global and local.…”

“…Among these, exhibitions and archives typically frame popular music's past from a local perspective, focusing on the music histories and identities of specific places Cohen, 2013). Yet globalization calls into question what is local, by pointing to contested processes of identity building (Morley, 2001) and of representation of diversity by heritage institutions (Khabra, 2014;Van den Bosch, 2007).…”

Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage

“…Included here are bands such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Electric Light Orchestra and Duran Duran while the work of many other artists attests to the cultural diversity of the city and its productive interrelations: Joan Armatrading, UB40, Steel Pulse, Musical Youth and The Beat. Likewise, there are a range of artists who played a part in originating and establishing the bhangra genre (Khabra 2014).…”