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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.
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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.
Note On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 19, 2019)
Contents 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
Subject Black people -- England -- London -- Music -- History and criticism.
Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
Music -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 21st century.
Black people. (OCoLC)fst00833880
Music -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01030444
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
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 History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781526131249 (electronic book)
1526131242 (electronic book)
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