It's a London thing : how rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city / Caspar Melville.
Material type: TextSeries: Music and society (Series)Publisher: Manchester (England) : Manchester University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526131249
- 1526131242
- Black people -- England -- London -- Music -- History and criticism
- Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century
- Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 21st century
- Musique -- Aspect social -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Musique -- Aspect social -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- Personnes noires -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Musique -- Histoire et critique
- Black people
- Music -- Social aspects
- England -- London
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- Cultural studies
- European history
- Human geography
- Music
- Music industry
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Social & cultural history
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- Music
- 1900-2099
- 782.4208691209421 23
- ML3652.8.L6
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. It tells the story of the linked Black musical scenes of the city, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to rare groove and rave in the 1980s and jungle and its offshoots in the 1990s, to dubstep and grime of the 2000s. Melville argues that these demonstrate enough common features to be thought of as one musical culture, an Afro-diasporic continuum. Core to this idea is that this dance culture has been ignored in history and cultural theory and that it should be thought of as a powerful and internationally significant form of popular art.
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List of figures; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: London's sonic space; 1 Hostile environment: London's racial geography, 1960-80; 2 Warehouse parties, rare groove and the diversion of space; 3 From Ibiza to London: Brixton acid and rave; 4 'A London Sum'ting Dis': diaspora remixed in the urban jungle; Epilogue: music and the multicultural city; Appendix: interviews for the book; Bibliography
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