South Asian Musics, Multiculturalism and Communities: A Review of Literature and Key Concepts Thomas Hodgson and David Clarke
The UK is home to many diverse South Asian communities who value music not only as a source of enjoyment, but as an activity that allows them to build networks and make their culture audible. As a rich and engaging ground for research, members of academic institutions now more than ever, need to take part in these communities in order to produce ethnographically informed and collaborative projects. The British Isles have always been multicultural. They have been the subject of flows of people from other lands, through migration, invasion and more; creating a culturally plural national identity. Over the last 30 years, there has been an enormous amount of sociological and anthropological interest in Britain’s multiculturalism. Nowadays, sociologists have tried to focus on multiculturalism as a concept, asking questions and having doubts on the benefits and disadvantages of past studies and arguing that multiculturalism should be about valuing cultural diversity (Hodgson and Clarke...