Sounds English: Transnational Popular Music

by Nabeel Zuberi

Popular music culture serves as an arena for debates on English and British national identity in this lively discussion of English popular music of the 1980s and 1990s. Against the background of his own upbringing as a Pakistani Brit, Nabeel Zuberi deftly combines a detailed account of the development of this music with a sophisticated assessment of its relation to the politics of cultural identity in Britain.

Zuberi looks at how the sounds,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026209
• ISBN13: 9780252026201
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"