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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographic references (pages 248-263) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

It's a London thing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1090373792

Responsibility statement

Caspar Melville

Series statement

Music and society

Sub title

how rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city

Summary

It's a London thing tells the story of the black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentith century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change and the part is played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. Melville explores the dance cultures of soul and reggae in the 1970s, rare groove and acid house in the 1980s and jungle and its off-shoots in the 1990s. The book argues that these demonstrate enough commonality to be seen as one musical continuum, and that the political and social importance of this form of popular art puts London frmly on the map as a global centre of this Afro-diasporic culture. --, Page [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction : London's sonic space -- Hostile environment : London's racial geography, 1960-80 -- Warehouse parties, rare groove and the diversion of space -- From Ibiza to London : Brixton acid and rave -- "A London sun'ting dis' : diaspora remixed in the urban jungle -- Epilogue : music and the multicultural city -- Appendix : interviews for the book

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It is a London thing

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