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Author Melville, Caspar, author.

Title It's a London thing : how rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city / Caspar Melville.

Publication Info. Manchester (England) : Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Music and society
Music and society (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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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Subject Black people -- England -- London -- Music -- History and criticism.
Black people.
England -- London.
Music.
Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Music -- Social aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject 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.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Music.
Music.
ISBN 9781526131249 (electronic book)
1526131242 (electronic book)