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Radio Leeds,3 mins

Bhangra: How it came to West Yorkshire

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What is the history of Bhangra music in England? A new book "Bhangra: Mystics, Music and Migration" is all about Bhangra history in Yorkshire since the 1960’s. It may well be born in the Punjab but author Hardeep Singh says it has a rich history in the mill towns of the North after immigrants settled in the region. He has studied the subject at Huddersfield University, and in this extract he tells Âé¶¹Éç Radio Leeds presenter Mussarrat Abbasi how Bhangra came to be linked with Yorkshire.

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