Greetings from Bury Park: Race. Religion. Rock 'n' Roll

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Sarfraz Manzoor (29 September 2010). "My family said they would boycott my wedding". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 October 2014. A tender, funny, book, which captures the weirdness of second-generation British lives as well as anything I've read.” The interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel would be my first published article. Her book Prozac Nation was being published that summer; I had read an advance copy and noticed it contained countless references to Springsteen and his music. Wurtzel was someone who, like me, had found inspiration and sustenance in Springsteen's music. I persuaded her publishers to let me interview her on the promise I would place the interview myself. I then sold the feature to the Manchester Evening News. `If you like the piece you can publish it,' I told the women's editor, `and if you don't you won't ever have to hear from me again. You have nothing to lose.' The suggestion that, being brown-skinned and Muslim, I would never be fully British, was reinforced by my own parents Wonderful. . . . Manzoor [writes with] insight, compassion, humor and self-awareness.” —The Sunday Times

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Manzoor, Sarfraz (15 August 2021). "Why I rejected my parents' wish for an arranged marriage". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 25 August 2021. (subscription required) (extract from Manzoor's memoir They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other)ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2008 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved April 29, 2022. Javed is a reserved and quiet boy who from the outside who seems like a shell. On the inside however, he’s in turmoil. He’s depressed and his only outlet is his writing. Discouraged by his family, he at first places no value on his writing. But through the magic of Springsteen he begins to see how his life does have meaning and more importantly how he can create meaning for himself. Perhaps what makes this film incredibly moving is- Javed learns that being free does not necessarily have to mean a complete rejection of his Pakistani roots. He learns to accept his identity as a British boy is also inherently tied to being Pakistani. This felt particularly revolutionary considering the film is set 1987 Thatcherite Britain. In March 2005, Manzoor wrote and presented Luton Actually, [9] a documentary for BBC 2. The programme, a personal and affectionate portrait of his hometown, featured Manzoor tracing his family's journey from Pakistan to Luton. We are living in a time when many of the battles I believed had been won are having to be refought. But the strongest weapon against those who seek to sow division is empathy. That this film is being made now, that it will reach audiences who haven’t read the book, gives me a reason to feel hopeful.

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Manzoor plans to use his role to be a “curator of conversations”, bringing special guests who have grown up in Luton – such as Nadiya Hussain or Paul Young – to the town to speak. I didn't think the book was that well thought out of brought anything new to an acculturation/accommodation lifestyle. I am interested in the experience of immigrants in England but I didn't really learn anything new and wasn't fascinated by anything the author wrote. I think he could of done so much more and written it better.

It’s nearly 50 years since Manzoor arrived in the Bedfordshire town from Pakistan to join his father, who was working at the Vauxhall car plant. Kot, Greg (August 23, 1992). "The Recorded History of Springsteen". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved July 8, 2013.

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Lee, Benjamin (28 January 2019). "Blinded by the Light review – Bruce Springsteen inspires mawkish misfire". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 January 2019. Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel recorded the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Records advance, and cut most of the songs during the last week of June 1972. [6] [1]

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Manzoor scripted The Great British Asian Invasion for Channel 4 [6] and wrote and directed Death of a Porn Star for the same network which told the tragic story of the life and death of Lolo Ferrari. He presented a documentary for Channel 4 [7] on the 2006 Guardian Hay Book Festival On the Way to Hay in which he interviewed Monica Ali and Will Self. [8] Charming and affectionate. . . . [ Greetings from Bury Park] rises above the predictable coming-of-age genre on the strength of Manzoor's unflinching honesty and his unique world view. . . . [Manzoor] poignantly shows how he comes to admire the life his father led even though it wasn't what he chose. . . . You don't have to be a Springsteen fan to enjoy this book or understand Manzoor's devotion. You just have to recall a time when you were still open enough that music had the power to shatter the world view you inherited.”— The Miami Herald

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urn:lcp:greetingsfrombur00manz:epub:35586a13-5a2f-464f-8391-7320c6dfb570 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier greetingsfrombur00manz Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1hh7jb90 Isbn 9780307388025 Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. first charted in the United Kingdom on June 15, 1985, in the wake of Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. tour arriving in Britain; it remained in the top 100 for ten weeks. [2] In 2003, the album was ranked at No. 379 in Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time [3] and in 2013 the same magazine named Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time". [4] On November 22, 2009, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. was played in its entirety for the first time by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York, to celebrate the last show of the Working on a Dream tour. [5] Recording [ edit ]As unlikely as the thought that being Asian might be considered cool, that white people might pay to watch a film about a Pakistani family growing up in the seventies or read a book about a Bangladeshi woman or laugh at a comedy sketch where the joke was on them and not the Asians performing the skit." And this TV business, is it secure?' he asked. `Is there any future in it?' His voice was not filled with scepticism as I had expected but concern; when I answered that it depended on how good I was he nodded. My father was not a man given to extravagant flourishes of enthusiasm. `So you might be a journalist?' my father continued. `That's a good profession. Respectable.' Manzoor has written on a variety of subjects, from class and race to music and film. His most recent book, They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other , explored British identity and religious tolerance.