The multicultural Midlands

<i>The multicultural Midlands</i> is a unique interdisciplinary study of the literature music and food that shape the region's irrepressible though often overlooked cultural identity. It is the first of its kind to give serious critical attention to a part of the world which is frequently ignored by readers critics and the culture industries. This book makes a claim for the importance of the Midlands and evidences this with nuanced close reading of a multitude of diverse texts spanning so-called 'high' to 'low' culture; from the Black Country's 'Desi Pubs' to Leicester's 'McIndians' Peri Peri ('you've tried the cowboys now try the Indians!'); Handsworth's reggae roots to Adrian Mole's diaries.