ambrose said:er.................
dont think so
ok, enlighten me, what is (the deliberately extremely loose category of) urban youth listening to, if not hip-hop, r&b, ragga etc?
even if i'm wrong (which i very much doubt i am), you can't deny that hip-hop is the point in the venn diagram where pretty much everyone crosses over. it gets to a lot of people.
re the soca/bhangra thing, i'm talking more contemporarily. right now bhangra is the indian element you can really hear, on the evidence of recent trends in the music - the dhol riddim, tracks like sharon darlington's (absolutely awesome) "bhangra" etc. (if i was trying to sketch out the outset of soca's development i'd have just said a much rougher "indian music", because i don't know much more than that, so it's good that someone's laid it all out clearly for future reference!) also interesting because it seems that bhangra has become the dominant "source" music there, not just to sikhs but to other sections of the south asian community, just as i was saying it had in the uk.
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