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Strictly bhangra: how daytimers got young British Asians dancing | Clubbing | The Guardian

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Their parents thought they were studying. But thousands of British Asians spent the 80s and 90s dancing – before heading home for tea. By Sarfraz Manzoor

It was the era of the nightclub, a time when dance music took hold in the UK. But the young British Asians who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s had, on the whole, conservative parents who disapproved of their children going to sweaty nightclubs, getting drunk and hooking up with the opposite sex. Against this repressive backdrop, something new emerged that passed largely unnoticed by the mainstream: club events where thousands of young Asians would listen to music – bhangra mainly – performed by bands and later played by DJs. These events took place not at night but during the…

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