ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the ways in which young Mirpuris in Bradford use music to understand how they are located socially and politically in the modern metropolis. It offers a street view of how they map out their city musically and how these spaces may develop an understanding of post-migrant, diasporic experience. The chapter comes from a 15-month ethnographic study in Bradford and the Mirpur area of southern Kashmir, Pakistan, where a majority of British Pakistanis originated. During the 1960s and 1970s, large numbers of Mirpuris were invited by the UK government to work in Britain's textile industry. Migrants and Minorities in Britain and Mirpuris today account, proportionally for the largest number of any South Asian group living not only in Bradford but in the UK as a whole. The chapter offers a brief survey of some of the ways in which young Muslims in Bradford use music to understand their experiences of the city.
