It's a London thing
How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city
by Caspar Melville, Peter Martin
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This book tells the history of the London 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. Melville explores the linked scenes around black music in London, 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, and demonstrates that there are 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. This book takes up the call from Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall, among others, to generate more accurate histories of post-colonial culture and the emergence of multiculture in the city, and extends thinking about the African diaspora to cover as yet under-theorised genres like rare groove, jungle, UK Garage, and the too-often-neglected cultural activity of dance music producers.
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This book tells the history of the London 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. Melville explores the linked scenes around black music in London, 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, and demonstrates that there are 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. This book takes up the call from Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall, among others, to generate more accurate histories of post-colonial culture and the emergence of multiculture in the city, and extends thinking about the African diaspora to cover as yet under-theorised genres like rare groove, jungle, UK Garage, and the too-often-neglected cultural activity of dance music producers.
Author Biography
Caspar Melville is Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at SOAS, University of London
Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date November 2019
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526131232 / 1526131234
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Pages272
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- SeriesMusic and Society
- Reference Code10747
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