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From Soho Road to the Punjab charts the rise and valued contribution of Bhangra music & culture in the West Midlands. For the first time ever an exhibition exposes its cultural relevance to today’s society & maps out the unsung hero’s.

Bhangra has undergone many changes since its inception five hundred years ago and has become one of the most popular forms of music within the UK and abroad. Birmingham has led the way internationally as a centre of bhangra music. West Midlands artists including Malkit Singh, Apna Sangeet, DCS, Apache Indian & Dr Zeus are all included in the exhibition.

Soho Road is one of Birmingham’s cultural hubs. Situated in Handsworth it acts as the main conduit that connects a large Asian community to Birmingham’s City Centre. The road is also a thriving space for culture and business. Soho Rd was instrumental in creating a landscape for bhangra to be popularised & was the meeting ground of many artists in the 60’s to present day. Bhangra was popular in these areas primarily because Asian people who lived in these areas were from the Punjab.

The Punjab is the birthplace of Bhangra music and the Punjab region extends over part of Northern India and North-eastern Pakistan. Translated, the name "Punjab" means the "Land of Five Rivers".

Photographer, Gurshan Chana, a stalwart of the bhangra scene has been taking pictures for the past 20 years and has collected records, flyers, archive footage and posters of events. Additional to this a short documentary has also been developed highlighting the unsung hero’s who were originators & innovators of the Bhangra scene.

The exhibition has been compiled by Punch and Gurshan Chana.

Timeline

-THE 1950s-

1. PIONEERS - The history and the hopes of those who migrated from the Punjab to the West Midlands.

2. DESTINATION BIRMINGHAM - The Birmingham region uniquely influences the sound and flavour of Bhangra.

-THE 1960s-

3. BOLLYWOOD AND BHANGRA - Global currents of sound and culture have a distinctive local effect.

4. BHANGRA AND BRIDES - How weddings and parties celebrate and circulate music, style and identity.

-THE 1970s-

5. THE BANDS / PJANDI - (Gurshan's interviews fit here, perhaps)

-THE 1980s-

6. BHANGRA BREAKTHROUGH - The asian music and culture explosion in the Midlands mirrors the confidence and growth in the media; Eastern Eye, Ghazal & Beat, etc.

-THE 1990s-

7. BRITISH BHANGRA STARS - New labels and acts including Apache Indian and Fun-Da-Mental have a sound and a style that creates respect across and outside the Asian community.

-TODAY AND TOMORROW-

8. GIVING BACK - British Asian beats reach a global audience through sampling in American music. A new wave of "ethnic" flavours and fusion develops.

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