Reverberate, episode 5: Birmingham's bhangra revolution

Racism, riots and political upheaval seemed to be spreading like wildfire in Britain in the 1980s. In that increasingly hostile environment, the ‘daytimers’ – mostly south Asian teenagers who skipped school to attend daytime raves – began to mix their Punjabi roots with western influences, creating a new type of music: bhangra. And one song about a Birmingham street crystallised it all. This musical revolution is told to us by the people who lived it, who bought the cassettes and bunked off classes to attend the parties: academic Rajinder Dudrah, DJ Boy Chana and others whose story is of a collective musical voice that spoke back against hatred

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Reverberate, episode 5: Birmingham's bhangra revolution is an episode from Reverberate by The Guardian.

This episode is 00:20:05 long.

This episode was published on Feb 24, 2021.

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